Announcing dbus 1.13.18

Simon McVittie <smcv-ZGY8ohtN/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.dbus
Message-ID <20200702150957.GA1467646@horizon>
This is a development branch for the adventurous, and comes with a risk
of regressions. OS distributions should stay with the 1.12.x branch,
unless they can commit to following the 1.13.x branch until it reaches
a 1.14.0 stable release at an unspecified point in the future.

<http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.13.18.tar.xz>
<http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.13.18.tar.xz.asc>
git tag: dbus-1.13.18

The “carnivorous border” release.

Maybe security fixes:

• On Unix, avoid a use-after-free if two usernames have the same
  numeric uid. In older versions this could lead to a crash (denial of
  service) or other undefined behaviour, possibly including incorrect
  authorization decisions if <policy group=...> is used.
  Like Unix filesystems, D-Bus' model of identity cannot distinguish
  between users of different names with the same numeric uid, so this
  configuration is not advisable on systems where D-Bus will be used.
  Thanks to Daniel Onaca.
  (dbus#305, dbus!166; Simon McVittie)

Other fixes:

• On Solaris and its derivatives, if a cmsg header is truncated, ensure
  that we do not overrun the buffer used for fd-passing, even if the
  kernel tells us to.
  (dbus#304, dbus!165; Andy Fiddaman)

• When built with CMake, use GNUInstallDirs' special-cases for prefixes
  /, /usr and /opt/*
  (dbus!155, Ralf Habacker)

• When built with CMake on Linux, allow systemd-specific features to be
  enabled, for feature parity with Autotools
  (dbus!155, Ralf Habacker)

• When built with CMake, install the same example files as with Autotools
  (dbus!155, Ralf Habacker)

• Correct the doc-comment for DBUS_ERROR_SPAWN_NO_MEMORY
  (dbus!163, Marc-André Lureau)

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