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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200311-01.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<glsa id="200311-01">
<title>kdebase: KDM vulnerabilities</title>
<synopsis>
A bug in KDM can allow privilege escalation with certain configurations of
PAM modules.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">kdebase</product>
<announced>2003-11-15</announced>
<revised>2003-11-15: 01</revised>
<bug>29406</bug>
<access>local / remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="kde-base/kdebase" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">3.1.4</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="le">3.1.3</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
KDM is the desktop manager included with the K Desktop Environment.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Firstly, versions of KDM &lt;=3.1.3 are vulnerable to a privilege escalation
bug with a specific configuration of PAM modules. Users who do not use PAM
with KDM and users who use PAM with regular Unix crypt/MD5 based
authentication methods are not affected.
</p>
<p>
Secondly, KDM uses a weak cookie generation algorithm. Users are advised to
upgrade to KDE 3.1.4, which uses /dev/urandom as a non-predictable source of
entropy to improve security.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A remote or local attacker could gain root privileges.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
kde-base/kdebase &lt;=3.1.3 upgrade:
</p>
<code>
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv '&gt;=kde-base/kde-3.1.4'
# emerge '&gt;=kde-base/kde-3.1.4'
# emerge clean</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0690">CAN-2003-0690</uri>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0692">CAN-2003-0692</uri>
<uri link="http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20030916-1.txt">KDE Security Advisory</uri>
</references>
</glsa>