Vulnerabilites related to freedesktop - libdbus
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2012-09-18 17:55
Modified
2025-04-11 00:51
Severity ?
Summary
libdbus 1.5.x and earlier, when used in setuid or other privileged programs in X.org and possibly other products, allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code via the DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable. NOTE: libdbus maintainers state that this is a vulnerability in the applications that do not cleanse environment variables, not in libdbus itself: "we do not support use of libdbus in setuid binaries that do not sanitize their environment before their first call into libdbus."
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| freedesktop | libdbus | * | |
| freedesktop | libdbus | 1.5.0 | |
| freedesktop | libdbus | 1.5.2 | |
| freedesktop | libdbus | 1.5.4 | |
| freedesktop | libdbus | 1.5.6 | |
| freedesktop | libdbus | 1.5.8 | |
| freedesktop | libdbus | 1.5.10 |
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CVE-2012-3524 (GCVE-0-2012-3524)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-09-18 17:00
Modified
2024-08-06 20:05
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
libdbus 1.5.x and earlier, when used in setuid or other privileged programs in X.org and possibly other products, allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code via the DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable. NOTE: libdbus maintainers state that this is a vulnerability in the applications that do not cleanse environment variables, not in libdbus itself: "we do not support use of libdbus in setuid binaries that do not sanitize their environment before their first call into libdbus."
References
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