MGASA-2013-0173

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    MGASA-2013-0173

    Published: 18 Jun 2013Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2013-2168

    Summary: Updated dbus packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Alexandru Cornea discovered a vulnerability in libdbus caused by an implementation bug in _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound(). This vulnerability can be exploited by a local user to crash system services that use libdbus, causing denial of service. Depending on the dbus services running, it could lead to complete system crash (CVE-2013-2168). This problem only currently appears to affect the x86_64 version of Mageia but we advise that all systems should be updated.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0173.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10520, http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2707

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: dbus

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/dbus?arch=source&distro=mageia-2

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.4.16-5.2.mga2

    Affected versions

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