metadata/glsa/glsa-200804-30.xml

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<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>