From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Mar 04 2009 - 17:24:04 CST

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TITLE:
NetworkManager D-Bus Request Restriction Security Issues

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34067

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34067/

DESCRIPTION:
Two security issues have been reported in NetworkManager, which can
be exploited by malicious, local users to manipulate certain data and
disclose potentially sensitive information.

1) A security issue is caused due to an incorrect deny setting within
system-settings/src/nm-system-settings.conf. This can be exploited to
e.g. disclose another user's connection passwords or keys.

2) The network-manager-applet does not properly restricting certain
D-Bus requests to the current user. This can be exploited to e.g.
manipulate or delete another user's network connection settings.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT and SVN repositories.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in an Ubuntu Advisory.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
USN-721-1:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2009-March/000847.html

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