Debian DSA-539-1 : kdelibs - temporary directory vulnerability

The SUSE security team was alerted that in some cases the integrity of symlinks used by KDE are not ensured and that these symlinks can be pointing to stale locations. This can be abused by a local attacker to create or truncate arbitrary files or to prevent KDE applications from functioning...

[SECURITY] [DSA 539-1] New kdelibs packages fix denial of service

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 539-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze August 17th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...