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[Full-disclosure] [ GLSA 200904-12 ] Wicd: Information disclosure

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200904-12


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Severity: Normal
Title: Wicd: Information disclosure
Date: April 10, 2009
Bugs: #258596
ID: 200904-12


Synopsis

A vulnerability in Wicd may allow for disclosure of sensitive
information.

Background

Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux.

Affected packages

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 Package        /  Vulnerable  /                        Unaffected
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1 net-misc/wicd < 1.5.9 >= 1.5.9

Description

Tiziano Mueller of Gentoo discovered that the DBus configuration file
for Wicd allows arbitrary users to own the org.wicd.daemon object.

Impact

A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to receive messages
that were intended for the Wicd daemon, possibly including credentials
e.g. for wireless networks.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Wicd users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-misc/wicd-1.5.9&quot;

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2009-0489
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0489

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-12.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
[email protected] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

Copyright 2009 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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