GLSA 200904-12: Wicd: Information disclosure

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Wicd: Information disclosure
Date:	04/10/2009
Bugs:	#258596
ID:	200904-12

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Wicd may allow for disclosure of sensitive information.

Background

Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-misc/wicd	< 1.5.9	>= 1.5.9	All supported architectures

Description

Tiziano Mueller of Gentoo discovered that the DBus configuration file for Wicd allows arbitrary users to own the org.wicd.daemon object.

Impact

A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to receive messages that were intended for the Wicd daemon, possibly including credentials e.g. for wireless networks.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Wicd users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/wicd-1.5.9"

References

CVE-2009-0489

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-12.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.