Description
dbus-daemon in D-Bus before 1.0.3, and 1.1.x before 1.1.20, recognizes send_interface attributes in allow directives in the security policy only for fully qualified method calls, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a method call with a NULL interface.
Published: 2008-02-29
Score: 4.6 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1599-1 New dbus packages fix privilege escalation
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-653-1 D-Bus vulnerabilities
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Fedoraproject Fedora
Freedesktop Dbus
Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T07:54:22.705Z

Reserved: 2008-02-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-0595

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Status : Modified

Published: 2008-02-29T19:44:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-0595

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-02-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-0595 - Bugzilla

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