DSA-1955-1 network-manager/network-manager-applet -- information disclosure

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1955-1 network-manager/network-manager-applet -- information disclosure

Date Reported:

16 Dec 2009

Affected Packages:

network-manager/network-manager-applet

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 519801.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0365.

More information:

It was discovered that network-manager-applet, a network management framework, lacks some dbus restriction rules, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information.

If you have locally modified the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf file, then please make sure that you merge the changes from this fix when asked during upgrade.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.4-6+etch4 of network-manager.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.6-4+lenny1 of network-manager-applet.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.0.99-1 of network-manager-applet.

We recommend that you upgrade your network-manager and network-manager-applet packages accordingly.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.6.4-6+etch4.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.6.4-6+etch4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.6.4.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-gnome_0.6.4-6+etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.6.4-6+etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib0_0.6.4-6+etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util0_0.6.4-6+etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-gnome_0.6.4-6+etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib0_0.6.4-6+etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util0_0.6.4-6+etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.6.4-6+etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_amd64.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util0_0.6.4-6+etch4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-gnome_0.6.4-6+etch4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.6.4-6+etch4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib0_0.6.4-6+etch4_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util0_0.6.4-6+etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.6.4-6+etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib0_0.6.4-6+etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-gnome_0.6.4-6+etch4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.6.4-6+etch4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-gnome_0.6.4-6+etch4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util0_0.6.4-6+etch4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib0_0.6.4-6+etch4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util0_0.6.4-6+etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.6.4-6+etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-gnome_0.6.4-6+etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib0_0.6.4-6+etch4_mips.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util0_0.6.4-6+etch4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib0_0.6.4-6+etch4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-gnome_0.6.4-6+etch4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.6.4-6+etch4_powerpc.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-dev_0.6.4-6+etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.6.4-6+etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib0_0.6.4-6+etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-gnome_0.6.4-6+etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager/libnm-util0_0.6.4-6+etch4_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager-applet/network-manager-applet_0.6.6-4+lenny1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager-applet/network-manager-applet_0.6.6-4+lenny1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager-applet/network-manager-applet_0.6.6.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager-applet/network-manager-gnome_0.6.6-4+lenny1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager-applet/network-manager-gnome_0.6.6-4+lenny1_amd64.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager-applet/network-manager-gnome_0.6.6-4+lenny1_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager-applet/network-manager-gnome_0.6.6-4+lenny1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager-applet/network-manager-gnome_0.6.6-4+lenny1_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager-applet/network-manager-gnome_0.6.6-4+lenny1_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager-applet/network-manager-gnome_0.6.6-4+lenny1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager-applet/network-manager-gnome_0.6.6-4+lenny1_powerpc.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/network-manager-applet/network-manager-gnome_0.6.6-4+lenny1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.