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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200804-30.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200804-30">
<title>KDE start_kdeinit: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
<synopsis>
Multiple vulnerabilities in start_kdeinit could possibly allow a local
attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">kdelibs</product>
<announced>April 29, 2008</announced>
<revised>April 08, 2009: 02</revised>
<bug>218933</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="kde-base/kdelibs" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="rge">3.5.8-r4</unaffected>
<unaffected range="rge">3.5.9-r3</unaffected>
<unaffected range="gt">4.0</unaffected>
<unaffected range="lt">3.5.5</unaffected>
<unaffected range="rge">3.5.10-r2</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">4.0</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and
Unix-like operating systems. start_kdeinit is a wrapper for kdeinit.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Vulnerabilities have been reported in the processing of user-controlled
data by start_kdeinit, which is setuid root by default.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="high">
<p>
A local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with root
privileges, cause a Denial of Service or send Unix signals to other
processes, when start_kdeinit is setuid root.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All kdelibs users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r4&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1671">CVE-2008-1671</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:52:59 +0000">
vorlon
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:20:59 +0000">
vorlon
</metadata>
</glsa>