CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-3524

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2012-09-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-09-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

libdbus 1.5.x and earlier, when used in setuid or other privileged programs in X.org and possibly other products, allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code via the DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable. NOTE: libdbus maintainers state that this is a vulnerability in the applications that do not cleanse environment variables, not in libdbus itself: "we do not support use of libdbus in setuid binaries that do not sanitize their environment before their first call into libdbus."

Affected configurations

• freedesktop libdbus (<= 1.5.12) • freedesktop libdbus 1.5.0 • freedesktop libdbus 1.5.2 • freedesktop libdbus 1.5.4 • freedesktop libdbus 1.5.6 • freedesktop libdbus 1.5.8 • freedesktop libdbus 1.5.10

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References