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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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