Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:24216Denial Of Service (DoS)
6.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is vulnerable to Denial Of Service (DoS). A privilege escalation flaw was found in the KDE Display Manager (KDM). allowing a local user with console access to trigger a race condition, possibly resulting in the permissions of an arbitrary file being set to world writable, allowing privilege escalation.
References
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/kdebase-workspace-4.3.5-CVE-2010-0436.diff
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/kdebase-workspace-4.3.5-CVE-2010-0436.diff
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039533.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00002.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0348.html
secunia.com/advisories/39419
secunia.com/advisories/39481
secunia.com/advisories/39506
www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2037
www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20100413-1.txt
www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
www.securityfocus.com/bid/39467
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0879
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0348
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570613
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/57823
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9999
Related
6.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C