Announcing dbus 1.12.16 security update

Simon McVittie <smcv-ZGY8ohtN/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.dbus
Message-ID <[email protected]>
dbus is the reference implementation of D-Bus, a message bus for
communication between applications and system services.

This is a stable-branch security fix release. Upgrading is recommended,
unless you are following the older security-fix-only stable branch 1.10.x.

<http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.12.16.tar.gz>
<http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.12.16.tar.gz.asc>
git tag: dbus-1.12.16

The “tree cat” release.

Security fixes:

• CVE-2019-12749: Do not attempt to carry out DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1
  authentication for identities that differ from the user running the
  DBusServer. Previously, a local attacker could manipulate symbolic
  links in their own home directory to bypass authentication and connect
  to a DBusServer with elevated privileges. The standard system and
  session dbus-daemons in their default configuration were immune to this
  attack because they did not allow DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1, but third-party
  users of DBusServer such as Upstart could be vulnerable.
  Thanks to Joe Vennix of Apple Information Security.
  (dbus#269, Simon McVittie)

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Simon McVittie, Collabora Ltd. / Debian
on behalf of the dbus maintainers
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