Announcing D-Bus 1.8.6 (security fix release)

[Simon McVittie]

This is a security fix release for the current stable branch, 1.8.x.
Please upgrade unless you have a reason to keep using an older branch.

http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.8.6.tar.gz
http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.8.6.tar.gz.asc
git tag: dbus-1.8.6
git branch: dbus-1.8

Security fixes:

• On Linux ≥ 2.6.37-rc4, if sendmsg() fails with ETOOMANYREFS, silently
  drop the message. This prevents an attack in which a malicious client
  can make dbus-daemon disconnect a system service, which is a local
  denial of service.
  (fd.o #80163, CVE-2014-3532; Alban Crequy)

• Track remaining Unix file descriptors correctly when more than one
  message in quick succession contains fds. This prevents another attack
  in which a malicious client can make dbus-daemon disconnect a system
  service.
  (fd.o #79694, fd.o #80469, CVE-2014-3533; Alejandro Martínez Suárez,
  Simon McVittie, Alban Crequy)

Other fixes:

• When dbus-launch --exit-with-session starts a dbus-daemon but then
  cannot attach to a session, kill the dbus-daemon as intended
  (fd.o #74698, Роман Донченко)

Regards,
    S