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authorSimon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>2014-11-06 16:28:19 +0000
committerSimon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>2014-11-06 16:28:19 +0000
commita2e1791ad1010bf94a15bcbc726255ec6a95171a (patch)
tree924c2c20572ce1267ebbb0f9e0feff48f79e4f1d
parent4472e01d599ae7254a94746a84cd89725bbf2cb9 (diff)
downloaddbus-a2e1791ad1010bf94a15bcbc726255ec6a95171a.tar.gz
Start 'dbus-daemon --system' as root under sysvinit, so it can increase its file descriptor limit
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog3
-rw-r--r--debian/dbus.init2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index cec49d5a..84dcb491 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ dbus (1.8.10-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
- raise dbus-daemon's file descriptor limit to 65536 to avoid an
opportunity for denial of service
(CVE-2014-7824, an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-3636)
+ * Start 'dbus-daemon --system' as root under sysvinit (it already
+ starts as root under systemd), so it can increase its file
+ descriptor limit
-- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:57:06 +0000
diff --git a/debian/dbus.init b/debian/dbus.init
index 9f9453a8..4f41293f 100644
--- a/debian/dbus.init
+++ b/debian/dbus.init
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ start_it_up()
log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
- --user $DAEMONUSER --exec $DAEMON -- --system $PARAMS
+ --exec $DAEMON -- --system $PARAMS
log_end_msg $?
}