Executive Summary

Summary
Title Wicd: Information disclosure
Informations
Name GLSA-200904-12 First vendor Publication 2009-04-10
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2009-04-10
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 2.1 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Wicd may allow for disclosure of sensitive information.

Background

Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux.

Description

Tiziano Mueller of Gentoo discovered that the DBus configuration file for Wicd allows arbitrary users to own the org.wicd.daemon object.

Impact

A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to receive messages that were intended for the Wicd daemon, possibly including credentials e.g. for wireless networks.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Wicd users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/wicd-1.5.9"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2009-0489 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0489

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-12.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-12.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-16 Configuration

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 14

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-04-15 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200904-12 (wicd)
File : nvt/glsa_200904_12.nasl
0000-00-00 Name : Slackware Advisory SSA:2009-040-01 wicd
File : nvt/esoft_slk_ssa_2009_040_01.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
51817 Wicd D-Bus Configuration File org.wicd.daemon Object Local Information Disclo...

Wicd D-Bus contains a flaw that may lead to an unauthorized information disclosure.  The issue is triggered when local users view the configration file (org.wicd.daemon ), which will disclose the local system information resulting in a loss of confidentiality.

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-04-11 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200904-12.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-02-12 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2009-040-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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