5 - USN-150-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	KDE library vulnerability

Informations
Name	USN-150-1	First vendor Publication	2005-07-21
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2005-07-21
Severity (Vendor)	N/A	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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score	5	Attack Range	Network
Cvss Impact Score	2.9	Attack Complexity	Low
Cvss Expoit Score	10	Authentication	None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)

The following packages are affected:

kdelibs4

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 4:3.4.0-0ubuntu3.3. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

Kate and Kwrite create a backup file before saving a modified file. These backup files were created with default permissions, even if the original file had more strict permissions set, so that other local users could possibly read the backup file even if they are not permitted to read the original file.