It was discovered that network-manager-applet, a network management framework, lacks some dbus restriction rules, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information. If you have locally modified the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf file, then please make sure that you merge the changes from this fix when asked during upgrade. For the stable distribution , this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.6-4+lenny1 of network-manager-applet. For the oldstable distribution , this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.4-6+etch1 of network-manager. For the testing distribution and the unstable distribution , this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.0.99-1 of network-manager-applet. We recommend that you upgrade your network-manager and network-manager-applet packages accordingly.