Ludwig Nussel reported: Preventing users from reading secrets can be achieved with proper dbus access rules. However having access to org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings allows anyone to modify the connection settings of the user owning that service. Restricting access to 'at_console' doesn't fix the problem as it would still be possible for local users to start a new session or log in on the text console which too would become 'at_console'. Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Ludwig Nussel for reporting this flaw responsibly.
Public now via: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-727-1
Fedora packages are already in-queue for updates, and Rawhide packages were out on Wednesday night.
NetworkManager-0.7.0.99-1.fc9, NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0.99-1.fc9, NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0.99-1.fc9, NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.0.99-1.fc9, NetworkManager-openconnect-0.7.0.99-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
NetworkManager-0.7.0.99-1.fc10, knetworkmanager-0.7-0.8.20080926svn.fc10, NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0.99-1.fc10, NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0.99-1.fc10, NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.0.99-1.fc10, NetworkManager-openconnect-0.7.0.99-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2009:0361 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0361.html
This issue was addressed in: Red Hat Enterprise Linux: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0361.html Fedora: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-2419 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-2420