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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-6107

Original release date:12/14/2006

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Unspecified vulnerability in the match_rule_equal function in bus/signals.c in D-Bus before 1.0.2 allows local applications to remove match rules for other applications and cause a denial of service (lost process messages).

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:1.7 (LOW) (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 3.1

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Locally exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Solution

This vulnrability is addressed in the following product release: D-BUS, D-BUS, 1.0.2}

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9142

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9142

External Source: BID

Name: 21571

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21571

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-4988

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/4988