Announcing D-Bus 1.8.16

Simon McVittie simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk
Mon Feb 9 07:25:57 PST 2015


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The “poorly concealed wrestlers” release.

This is a security update 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-1.8.16.tar.gz
http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.8.16.tar.gz.asc
git tag: dbus-1.8.16
git branch: dbus-1.8

Security fixes:

• Do not allow non-uid-0 processes to send forged ActivationFailure
  messages. On Linux systems with systemd activation, this would
  allow a local denial of service: unprivileged processes could
  flood the bus with these forged messages, winning the race with
  the actual service activation and causing an error reply
  to be sent back when service auto-activation was requested.
  This does not prevent the real service from being started,
  so it only works while the real service is not running.
  (CVE-2015-0245, fd.o #88811; Simon McVittie)

Other fixes:

• fix a Windows build failure (fd.o #88009, Ralf Habacker)

• on Windows, allow up to 8K connections to the dbus-daemon instead of
  the previous 64, completing a previous fix which only worked under
  Autotools (fd.o #71297, Ralf Habacker)

- -- 
Simon McVittie, Collabora Ltd.
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