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[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: kf5-kinit-5.24.0-1.fc24
kdeinit is a process launcher somewhat similar to the famous init used for booting UNIX. It launches processes by forking and then loading a dynamic library which s hould contain a 'kdemain...' function...
USN-608-1: KDE vulnerability
It was discovered that startkdeinit in KDE 3 did not properly sanitize its input. A local attacker could exploit this to send signals to other processes and cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-1671...