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KDE Security Advisory: langen2kvtml temp file vulnerability
Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 08/15/2005 05:31 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]
KDE Security Advisory: langen2kvtml tempfile vulnerability
Original Release Date: 2008-08-15
URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050815-1.txt
0. References
CAN-2005-2101
1. Systems affected:
All KDE releases starting from KDE 3.0 up to including
KDE 3.4.2.
Original Release Date: 2008-08-15
URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050815-1.txt
0. References
CAN-2005-2101
1. Systems affected:
All KDE releases starting from KDE 3.0 up to including
KDE 3.4.2.
2. Overview:
Ben Burton notified the KDE security team about several
tempfile handling related vulnerabilities in langen2kvtml,
a conversion script for kvoctrain. This vulnerability was
initially discovered by Javier Fernendez-Sanguino Pefa.
The script uses known filenames in /tmp which allow an
local attacker to overwrite files writeable by the
user (manually) invoking the conversion script.
3. Impact:
A local file can overwrite files and possibly elevate
privileges.
4. Solution:
Source code patches have been made available which fix these
vulnerabilities. Contact your OS vendor / binary package provider
for information about how to obtain updated binary packages.
5. Patch:
Patch for KDE 3.4.2 is available from
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches :
0e82c5810df3b04370188ba13cc50203 post-3.4.2-kdeedu.diff
Ben Burton notified the KDE security team about several
tempfile handling related vulnerabilities in langen2kvtml,
a conversion script for kvoctrain. This vulnerability was
initially discovered by Javier Fernendez-Sanguino Pefa.
The script uses known filenames in /tmp which allow an
local attacker to overwrite files writeable by the
user (manually) invoking the conversion script.
3. Impact:
A local file can overwrite files and possibly elevate
privileges.
4. Solution:
Source code patches have been made available which fix these
vulnerabilities. Contact your OS vendor / binary package provider
for information about how to obtain updated binary packages.
5. Patch:
Patch for KDE 3.4.2 is available from
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches :
0e82c5810df3b04370188ba13cc50203 post-3.4.2-kdeedu.diff
