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authorSimon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>2018-04-23 18:33:42 +0100
committerSimon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>2018-04-23 18:33:42 +0100
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@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ Dependencies:
Enhancements:
+• D-Bus Specification v0.32
+ · Be clearer about the security properties of TCP transports, which
+ have no integrity or confidentiality protection and so should not
+ normally be used, except via the loopback interface on Windows
+ (fd.o #106004, Simon McVittie)
+
• On Linux 4.13 or later, <policy group="…"> now uses the SO_PEERGROUPS
credentials-passing socket option to get the effective group IDs
of the initiator of the connection. On platforms where that socket
@@ -38,6 +44,11 @@ Enhancements:
• The Devhelp documentation index is now in version 2 format
(fd.o #106186, Simon McVittie)
+• Give the dbus-daemon man page some scarier warnings about
+ <allow_anonymous/>, which is insecure and should not be used,
+ particularly for the standard system and session buses
+ (fd.o #106004, Simon McVittie)
+
Fixes:
• Listening on TCP sockets copes better with IPv6 being disabled