Dbus session and Dbus system showing in Wireshark

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.nz
Tue Jun 21 02:24:29 UTC 2022


On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 18:32:43 -0700, Anthony Pereyra wrote:

> I am wondering why a Dbus-session is sending information to free
> desktop org. From inside my network, as a separate network device? We
> here have never before used any of the software from this site. We
> are thinking this is a security breach.

If it’s a TCP connection, you can use “ss -t” (or older “netstat -t”) on
that machine to see the connection endpoints. Once you have identified
the local port, you can then use “lsof -i :«port»” to see which process
has that port open.


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