Security update for dbus-1

SUSE Security Update: Security update for dbus-1
Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2014:1724-1
Rating: moderate
References: #904017
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12

  • An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

    Description:

    dbus-1 was updated to version 1.8.12 to fix one security issue.

    This security issue was fixed:
    - Increase dbus-daemons RLIMIT_NOFILE rlimit to 65536 to stop an attacker
    from exhausting the file descriptors of the system bus (CVE-2014-7824).

    Note: This already includes the fix for the regression that was introduced
    by the first fix for CVE-2014-7824 in 1.8.10.

    On fast systems where local users are considered particularly hostile,
    administrators can return to the 5 second timeout (or any other value in
    milliseconds) by saving this as /etc/dbus-1/system-local.conf:
    5000

    Patch Instructions:

    To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
    Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2014-121
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2014-121
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2014-121

    To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64):
      • dbus-1-debugsource-1.8.12-6.1
      • dbus-1-devel-1.8.12-6.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 (noarch):
      • dbus-1-devel-doc-1.8.12-6.5
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64):
      • dbus-1-1.8.12-6.5
      • dbus-1-debuginfo-1.8.12-6.5
      • dbus-1-debugsource-1.8.12-6.1
      • dbus-1-x11-1.8.12-6.5
      • dbus-1-x11-debuginfo-1.8.12-6.5
      • dbus-1-x11-debugsource-1.8.12-6.5
      • libdbus-1-3-1.8.12-6.1
      • libdbus-1-3-debuginfo-1.8.12-6.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (s390x x86_64):
      • libdbus-1-3-32bit-1.8.12-6.1
      • libdbus-1-3-debuginfo-32bit-1.8.12-6.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 (x86_64):
      • dbus-1-1.8.12-6.5
      • dbus-1-debuginfo-1.8.12-6.5
      • dbus-1-debugsource-1.8.12-6.1
      • dbus-1-x11-1.8.12-6.5
      • dbus-1-x11-debuginfo-1.8.12-6.5
      • dbus-1-x11-debugsource-1.8.12-6.5
      • libdbus-1-3-1.8.12-6.1
      • libdbus-1-3-32bit-1.8.12-6.1
      • libdbus-1-3-debuginfo-1.8.12-6.1
      • libdbus-1-3-debuginfo-32bit-1.8.12-6.1

    References:

    • http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3636.html
    • http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7824.html
    • https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904017