Executive Summary

Summary
Title KDE start_kdeinit: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-200804-30 First vendor Publication 2008-04-29
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2008-04-29
Severity (Vendor) High Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.6 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities in start_kdeinit could possibly allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

Background

KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. start_kdeinit is a wrapper for kdeinit.

Description

Vulnerabilities have been reported in the processing of user-controlled data by start_kdeinit, which is setuid root by default.

Impact

A local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with root privileges, cause a Denial of Service or send Unix signals to other processes, when start_kdeinit is setuid root.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All kdelibs users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r4"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-1671 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1671

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-30.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-30.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-16 Configuration

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17614
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17614
Title: USN-608-1 -- kdelibs vulnerability
Description: It was discovered that start_kdeinit in KDE 3 did not properly sanitize its input.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-608-1
CVE-2008-1671
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 8.04
 Product(s): kdelibs
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 5

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for kdelibs MDVSA-2008:097 (kdelibs)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_097.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for kdelibs vulnerability USN-608-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_608_1.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200804-30 (kdelibs)
File : nvt/glsa_200804_30.nasl
0000-00-00 Name : Slackware Advisory SSA:2008-116-01 kdelibs
File : nvt/esoft_slk_ssa_2008_116_01.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
44631 KDE start_kdeinit Local Privilege Escalation

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-097.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-09 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_kdelibs3-5223.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-09 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-608-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-01 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200804-30.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-04-28 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2008-116-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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