Sebastian Krahmer discovered that a race condition in the KDE Desktop
Environmentβs KDM display manager, allow a local user to elevate privileges
to root.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version
4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6+lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your kdm package.
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
---|---|---|---|
kdebase | eq | 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6 |