CVE-2009-0578

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-03-03
Bugzilla:
487752: CVE-2009-0578 NetworkManager: local users can modify the connection settings

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

GNOME NetworkManager before 0.7.0.99 does not properly verify privileges for dbus (1) modify and (2) delete requests, which allows local users to change or remove the network connections of arbitrary users via unspecified vectors related to org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings and at_console.

Find out more about CVE-2009-0578 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 3.6
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (NetworkManager) RHSA-2009:0361 2009-03-25

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Ludwig Nussel for reporting this flaw responsibly.

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