Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-1189 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Freedesktop Dbus
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
The _dbus_validate_signature_with_reason function (dbus-marshal-validate.c) in D-Bus (aka DBus) before 1.2.14 uses incorrect logic to validate a basic type, which allows remote attackers to spoof a signature via a crafted key. NOTE: this is due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-3834.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Server Side Include (SSI) Injection An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
- Cross Zone Scripting An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
- Cross Site Scripting through Log Files An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
- Command Line Execution through SQL Injection An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.
Nessus
NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2010-0018.NASL description Updated dbus packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. D-Bus is a system for sending messages between applications. It is used for the system-wide message bus service and as a per-user-login-session messaging facility. It was discovered that the Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0008 did not correctly fix the denial of service flaw in the system for sending messages between applications. A local user could use this flaw to send a message with a malformed signature to the bus, causing the bus (and, consequently, any process using libdbus to receive messages) to abort. (CVE-2009-1189) Note: Users running any application providing services over the system message bus are advised to test this update carefully before deploying it in production environments. All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. For the update to take effect, all running instances of dbus-daemon and all running applications using the libdbus library must be restarted, or the system rebooted. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 43819 published 2010-01-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/43819 title RHEL 5 : dbus (RHSA-2010:0018) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2010-0476.NASL description An updated rhev-hypervisor package that fixes two security issues, multiple bugs, and adds enhancements is now available. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. The rhev-hypervisor package provides a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor ISO disk image. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is a dedicated Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. It includes everything necessary to run and manage virtual machines: A subset of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating environment and the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Agent. Note: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is only available for the Intel 64 and AMD64 architectures with virtualization extensions. A flaw was found in the way QEMU-KVM handled erroneous data provided by the Linux virtio-net driver, used by guest operating systems. Due to a deficiency in the TSO (TCP segment offloading) implementation, a guest last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 79275 published 2014-11-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79275 title RHEL 5 : rhev-hypervisor (RHSA-2010:0476) NASL family VMware ESX Local Security Checks NASL id VMWARE_VMSA-2010-0004.NASL description a. vMA and Service Console update for newt to 0.52.2-12.el5_4.1 Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets, checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars, etc., to text mode user interfaces. A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way newt processes content that is to be displayed in a text dialog box. A local attacker could issue a specially crafted text dialog box display request (direct or via a custom application), leading to a denial of service (application crash) or, potentially, arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running the application using the newt library. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2009-2905 to this issue. b. vMA and Service Console update for vMA package nfs-utils to 1.0.9-42.el5 The nfs-utils package provides a daemon for the kernel NFS server and related tools. It was discovered that nfs-utils did not use tcp_wrappers correctly. Certain hosts access rules defined in last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 44993 published 2010-03-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/44993 title VMSA-2010-0004 : ESX Service Console and vMA third-party updates NASL family VMware ESX Local Security Checks NASL id VMWARE_VMSA-2010-0004_REMOTE.NASL description The remote VMware ESX host is missing a security-related patch. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including remote code execution vulnerabilities, in several third-party components and libraries : - bind - expat - glib2 - Kernel - newt - nfs-utils - NTP - OpenSSH - OpenSSL last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 89737 published 2016-03-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89737 title VMware ESX Third-Party Libraries Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2010-0004) (remote check) NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2010-0018.NASL description From Red Hat Security Advisory 2010:0018 : Updated dbus packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. D-Bus is a system for sending messages between applications. It is used for the system-wide message bus service and as a per-user-login-session messaging facility. It was discovered that the Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0008 did not correctly fix the denial of service flaw in the system for sending messages between applications. A local user could use this flaw to send a message with a malformed signature to the bus, causing the bus (and, consequently, any process using libdbus to receive messages) to abort. (CVE-2009-1189) Note: Users running any application providing services over the system message bus are advised to test this update carefully before deploying it in production environments. All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. For the update to take effect, all running instances of dbus-daemon and all running applications using the libdbus library must be restarted, or the system rebooted. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 67981 published 2013-07-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/67981 title Oracle Linux 5 : dbus (ELSA-2010-0018) NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2010-0018.NASL description Updated dbus packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. D-Bus is a system for sending messages between applications. It is used for the system-wide message bus service and as a per-user-login-session messaging facility. It was discovered that the Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0008 did not correctly fix the denial of service flaw in the system for sending messages between applications. A local user could use this flaw to send a message with a malformed signature to the bus, causing the bus (and, consequently, any process using libdbus to receive messages) to abort. (CVE-2009-1189) Note: Users running any application providing services over the system message bus are advised to test this update carefully before deploying it in production environments. All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. For the update to take effect, all running instances of dbus-daemon and all running applications using the libdbus library must be restarted, or the system rebooted. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 43817 published 2010-01-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/43817 title CentOS 5 : dbus (CESA-2010:0018) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_DBUS-1-7482.NASL description Local users could crash the D-Bus daemon by sending a specially crafted message (CVE-2010-4352). This update also properly fixes CVE-2008-3834 / CVE-2009-1189. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 57177 published 2011-12-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/57177 title SuSE 10 Security Update : dbus (ZYPP Patch Number 7482) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-799-1.NASL description It was discovered that the D-Bus library did not correctly validate signatures. If a local user sent a specially crafted D-Bus key, they could spoof a valid signature and bypass security policies. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 39786 published 2009-07-14 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2009-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2009-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/39786 title Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : dbus vulnerability (USN-799-1) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-1837.NASL description It was discovered that the dbus_signature_validate function in dbus, a simple interprocess messaging system, is prone to a denial of service attack. This issue was caused by an incorrect fix for DSA-1658-1. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 44702 published 2010-02-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/44702 title Debian DSA-1837-1 : dbus - programming error NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_DBUS-1-110418.NASL description Local users could crash the D-Bus daemon by sending a specially crafted message (CVE-2010-4352). This update also properly fixes CVE-2008-3834 / CVE-2009-1189. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 53587 published 2011-04-29 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/53587 title SuSE 11.1 Security Update : dbus (SAT Patch Number 4434) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_DBUS-1-7483.NASL description Local users could crash the D-Bus daemon by sending a specially crafted message (CVE-2010-4352). This update also properly fixes CVE-2008-3834 / CVE-2009-1189. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 53590 published 2011-04-29 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/53590 title SuSE 10 Security Update : dbus (ZYPP Patch Number 7483) NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20100107_DBUS_ON_SL5_X.NASL description It was discovered that the last dbus security update did not correctly fix the denial of service flaw in the system for sending messages between applications. A local user could use this flaw to send a message with a malformed signature to the bus, causing the bus (and, consequently, any process using libdbus to receive messages) to abort. (CVE-2009-1189) Note: Users running any application providing services over the system message bus are advised to test this update carefully before deploying it in production environments. For the update to take effect, all running instances of dbus-daemon and all running applications using the libdbus library must be restarted, or the system rebooted. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 60715 published 2012-08-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/60715 title Scientific Linux Security Update : dbus on SL5.x i386/x86_64 NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2009-256.NASL description A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in dbus : The _dbus_validate_signature_with_reason function (dbus-marshal-validate.c) in D-Bus (aka DBus) uses incorrect logic to validate a basic type, which allows remote attackers to spoof a signature via a crafted key. NOTE: this is due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-3834 (CVE-2009-1189). This update provides a fix for this vulnerability. Update : Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0 customers last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 42046 published 2009-10-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/42046 title Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : dbus (MDVSA-2009:256-1)
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accepted | 2013-04-29T04:04:29.223-04:00 | ||||||||||||
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description | The _dbus_validate_signature_with_reason function (dbus-marshal-validate.c) in D-Bus (aka DBus) before 1.2.14 uses incorrect logic to validate a basic type, which allows remote attackers to spoof a signature via a crafted key. NOTE: this is due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-3834. | ||||||||||||
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id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10308 | ||||||||||||
status | accepted | ||||||||||||
submitted | 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00 | ||||||||||||
title | The _dbus_validate_signature_with_reason function (dbus-marshal-validate.c) in D-Bus (aka DBus) before 1.2.14 uses incorrect logic to validate a basic type, which allows remote attackers to spoof a signature via a crafted key. NOTE: this is due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-3834. | ||||||||||||
version | 19 |
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References
- http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17803
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/16/13
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31602
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32127
- http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus#head-dad0dab297a44f1d7a3b1259cfc06b583fd6a88a
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35810
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38794
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50385
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10308
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/799-1/