Summary
The remote host is missing an update to dbus
announced via advisory DSA 1599-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201599-1
Insight
Havoc Pennington discovered that DBus, a simple interprocess messaging system, performs insufficient validation of security policies, which might allow local privilege escalation.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-1+etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.20-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your dbus packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-0595 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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