CVE-2008-4311

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-12-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

The default configuration of system.conf in D-Bus (aka DBus) before 1.2.6 omits the send_type attribute in certain rules, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by (1) sending messages, related to send_requested_reply; and possibly (2) receiving messages, related to receive_requested_reply.

Affected products

Freedesktop Dbus: through 1.2.4; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+39)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=503532
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=206797
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2008-December/010702.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00094.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33047
http://secunia.com/advisories/33055
http://secunia.com/advisories/34360
http://secunia.com/advisories/34642
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32674

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