Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200601-11 (KDE)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200601-11. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

KDE dcopidlng: Insecure temporary file creation

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. DCOP is KDE's simple IPC/RPC mechanism. dcopidlng is a DCOP helper script. Description Davide Madrisan has discovered that the dcopidlng script creates temporary files in a world-writable...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdelibs (MDKSA-2002:058)

A vulnerability was discovered in KDE's SSL implementation in that it does not check the basic constraints on a certificate and as a result may accept certificates as valid that were signed by an issuer who is not authorized to do so. This can lead to Konqueror and other SSL- enabled KDE software...

KDE URI Handler Vulnerabilities

Background The K Desktop Environment KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment. KDE makes use of URI handlers to trigger various programs when specific URLs are received. Description The telnet, rlogin, ssh and mailto URI handlers in KDE do not check for '-' at the beginning o...