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Simon McVittie authored
This reverts commit 54d26df5. It appears this change may cause intermittent slow or failed boot, more commonly on slower/older machines, in at least Mageia and possibly also Debian. This would indicate that while the system is under load, system services are not completing authentication within 5 seconds. This change was not the main part of fixing CVE-2014-3639, but does help to mitigate that attack. As such, increasing this timeout makes the denial of service attack described by CVE-2014-3639 somewhat more effective: a local user connecting to the system bus repeatedly from many parallel processes can cause other users' attempts to connect to take longer. If your machine boots reliably with the shorter timeout, and resilience against local denial of service attacks is important to you, putting this in /etc/dbus-1/system-local.conf or a file matching /etc/dbus-1/system.d/*.conf can restore the lower limit: <busconfig> <limit name="auth_timeout">5000</limit> </busconfig> Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86431
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