PT-2005-3396 · Kde+1 · Kde+1

Ilja Van Sprundel · Published 2005-09-06 · Updated 2017-10-11 · CVE-2005-2494

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions KDE versions 3.2.0 through 3.4.2

Description The issue allows local users to gain root access via a symlink attack on lock files. This is related to the kcheckpass component in KDE.

Recommendations For KDE versions 3.2.0 through 3.4.2, consider restricting access to the kcheckpass component until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the kcheckpass functionality to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-2494

DSA-815-1

RHSA-2006:0582

RHSA-2006_0582

Affected Products

Kde

Red Hat

References · 17

• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-176-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2494 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:160 · Vendor Advisory
• http://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050905-1.txt · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0582.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2005/dsa-815 · Vendor Advisory
• ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.4.2-kdebase-kcheckpass.diff · Patch
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112603999215453&w=2 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2005-2494 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0582 · Note
• http://suresec.org/advisories/adv6.pdf · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16692 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/14736 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18139 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9388 · Note