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Test ID: | 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.57247 |
Category: | Red Hat Local Security Checks |
Title: | RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2006:0582 |
Summary: | NOSUMMARY |
Description: | Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2006:0582. The kdebase packages provide the core applications for KDE, the K Desktop Environment. These core packages include the file manager Konqueror. Ilja van Sprundel discovered a lock file handling flaw in kcheckpass. If the directory /var/lock is writable by a user who is allowed to run kcheckpass, that user could gain root privileges. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the /var/lock directory is not writable by users and therefore this flaw could only have been exploited if the permissions on that directory have been badly configured. A patch to block this issue has been included in this update. (CVE-2005-2494) The following bugs have also been addressed: - - kstart --tosystray does not send the window to the system tray in Kicker - - When the customer enters or selects URLs in Firefox's address field, the desktop freezes for a couple of seconds - - fish kioslave is broken on 64-bit systems All users of kdebase should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain patches to resolve these issues. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0582.html http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 7.2 |
Cross-Ref: |
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2494 BugTraq ID: 14736 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14736 Bugtraq: 20050905 [KDE Security Advisory] kcheckpass local root vulnerability (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112603999215453&w=2 Bugtraq: 20050907 [ Suresec Advisories ] - Kcheckpass file creation vulnerability (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112611555928169&w=2 Debian Security Information: DSA-815 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-815 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:160 ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.4.2-kdebase-kcheckpass.diff http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv6.pdf https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9388 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0582.html http://secunia.com/advisories/16692 http://secunia.com/advisories/18139 http://secunia.com/advisories/21481 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-176-1 |
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