CVE-2019-12749 - log back

CVE-2019-12749 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity
+ High
Remote
+ Local
Type
+ Access restriction bypass
Description
+ It has been discovered that dbus before 1.12.16 allows cookie spoofing because of symlink mishandling in the reference implementation of DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 in the libdbus library. This issue only affects the DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 authentication mechanism.
+ A malicious client with write access to its own home directory could manipulate a ~/.dbus-keyrings symlink to cause a DBusServer with a different uid to read and write in unintended locations. In the worst case, this could result in the DBusServer reusing a cookie that is known to the malicious client, and treating that cookie as evidence that a subsequent client connection came from an attacker-chosen uid, allowing authentication bypass.
References
+ https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/11/2
+ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/issues/269
+ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/commit/47b1a4c41004bf494b87370987b222c934b19016
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