[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: dbus-glib-0.86-3.fc12

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-12911
2010-08-17 05:08:33
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Name        : dbus-glib
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 0.86
Release     : 3.fc12
URL         : http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/
Summary     : GLib bindings for D-Bus
Description :

D-Bus add-on library to integrate the standard D-Bus library with
the GLib thread abstraction and main loop.

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Update Information:

It was discovered that dbus-glib did not enforce the "access" flag on exported
GObject properties. If such a property were read/write internally but specified
as read-only externally, a malicious, local user could use this flaw to modify
that property of an application. Such a change could impact the application's
behavior (for example, if an IP address were changed the network may not come up
properly after reboot) and possibly lead to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-1172)
Due to the way dbus-glib translates an application's XML definitions of service
interfaces and properties into C code at application build time, applications
built against dbus-glib that use read-only properties needed to be rebuilt to
fully fix the flaw. This update provides NetworkManager, ModemManager and
DeviceKit-power packages that have been rebuilt against the updated dbus-glib
packages.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Aug 12 2010 Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> - 0.86-3
- Merge patches from F-13 (property access and a dependent patch)
* Mon Jun 28 2010 Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> 0.86-1
- Update to 0.86
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #585394 - CVE-2010-1172 dbus-glib: property access not validated
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585394
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update dbus-glib' at the command line.
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