KPMCore: Root privilege escalation

Background KPMcore, the KDE Partition Manager core, is a library for examining and modifying partitions, disk devices, and filesystems on a Linux system. It provides a unified programming interface over top of external system-manipulation tools. Description Improper checks on the D-Bus request...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : dbus (MDVSA-2008:213)

The D-Bus library did not correctly validate certain corrupted signatures which could cause a crash of applications linked against the D-Bus library if a local user were to send a specially crafted D-Bus request CVE-2008-3834. The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue...