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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201909-08">
+ <title>D-Bus: Authentication bypass</title>
+ <synopsis>An authentication bypass was discovered in D-Bus.</synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">dbus</product>
+ <announced>2019-09-08</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2019-09-08</revised>
+ <bug>687900</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sys-apps/dbus" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.12.16</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.12.16</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>D-Bus is a message bus system which processes can use to talk to each
+ other.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>It was discovered that a local attacker could manipulate symbolic links
+ in their own home directory to bypass authentication and connect to a
+ DBusServer with elevated privileges.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A local attacker can bypass authentication mechanisms and elevate
+ privileges.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All D-Bus users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/dbus-1.12.16"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12749">CVE-2019-12749</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-09-07T17:12:55Z">b-man</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-09-08T17:40:45Z">b-man</metadata>
+</glsa>