Last updated 5 June 2026

Last updated 5 June 2026

Last updated 5 June 2026

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 atconsole.

From Ludwid Nussel:

nm-applet.conf contains the following rules:

<policy context="default"> <allow senddestination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings"/> <allow sendinterface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings"/> <!-- Only root can get secrets --> <deny sendinterface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.Secrets"/>

Ie anyone can call methods on destination org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings. There is a line that is supposed to block users from calling the GetSecrets method on the separate interface for secrets. Unfortunately that interface is not called "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.Secrets" but "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.Connection.Secrets". So the deny statement is useless and any user on the system can fetch the connection secrets. The same problem can be found in nm-system-settings.

Acknowledgements:

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

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Ubuntu Linux 6.10 for the PowerPC (PPC) allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by using the (1) sysgetrobustlist and (2) syssetrobustlist functions to create processes that cannot be killed.

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The POSIX Capability Linux Security Module (LSM) for Linux kernel 2.6 does not properly handle the credentials of a process that is launched before the module is loaded, which allows local users to gain privileges.

Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) sys32nisyscall and (2) sys32vm86warning functions in sysia32.c for Linux 2.6.x may allow local attackers to modify kernel memory and gain privileges.

Multiple vulnerabilities in the IGMP functionality for Linux kernel 2.4.22 to 2.4.28, and 2.6.x to 2.6.9, allow local and remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via (1) the ipmcsource function, which decrements a counter to -1, or (2) the igmpmarksources function, which does not properly validate IGMP message parameters and performs an out-of-bounds read.

A "missing serialization" error in the unixdgramrecvmsg function in Linux 2.4.27 and earlier, and 2.6.x up to 2.6.9, allows local users to gain privileges via a race condition.

The deserialization code in PHP before 4.3.10 and PHP 5.x up to 5.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and execute arbitrary code via untrusted data to the unserialize function that may trigger "information disclosure, double-free and negative reference index array underflow" results.

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