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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2010-50            security@pardus.org.tr
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      Date: 2010-04-20
  Severity: 3
      Type: Local
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Summary
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A security issue has been fixed in  KDE,  which  can  be  exploited  by
malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.


Description
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CVE-2010-0436:

Race condition in backend/ctrl.c in KDM in KDE allows  local  users  to
change  the permissions  of  arbitrary  files,  and  consequently  gain
privileges, by blocking the removal of a certain directory that contains
a control socket, related to improper interaction with ksm.


Affected packages:

  Pardus 2009:
    kdm, all before 4.3.5-104-65
    kdebase-workspace, all before 4.3.5-104-65



Resolution
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There are update(s) for kdm, kdebase-workspace. You can update them via
Package Manager or with a single command from console:

    pisi up kdm kdebase-workspace

References
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  * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id677
  * http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20100413-1.txt
  * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0436

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