gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200504-23.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200504-23">
  <title>Kommander: Insecure remote script execution</title>
  <synopsis>
    Kommander executes remote scripts without confirmation, potentially
    resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Kommander</product>
  <announced>2005-04-22</announced>
  <revised count="02">2005-05-20</revised>
  <bug>89092</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="kde-base/kdewebdev" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.3.2-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.3.2-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and
    Unix-like Operating Systems. Kommander is a visual dialog editor and
    interpreter for KDE applications, part of the kdewebdev package.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Kommander executes data files from possibly untrusted locations without
    user confirmation.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the
    permissions of the user running Kommander.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All kdewebdev users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=kde-base/kdewebdev-3.3.2-r2"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0754">CAN-2005-0754</uri>
    <uri link="https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050420-1.txt">KDE Security Advisory: Kommander untrusted code execution</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-04-22T06:18:02Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-04-22T06:48:56Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>