CVE-2008-1671

Upstream information

CVE-2008-1671 at MITRE

Description

start_kdeinit in KDE 3.5.5 through 3.5.9, when installed setuid root, allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via "user-influenceable input" (probably command-line arguments) that cause start_kdeinit to send SIGUSR1 signals to other processes.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.6
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 382618 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SR:2008:011, published Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:00 +0000

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4	kdelibs3-32bit >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-arts >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-arts-32bit >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-arts-x86 >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-default-style-32bit >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-devel >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-doc >= 3.5.10-23.27.1	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA kdelibs3-32bit-3.5.10-23.27.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1	kdelibs3 >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-32bit >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-default-style >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-default-style-32bit >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-default-style-x86 >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-x86 >= 3.5.10-23.27.1	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 GA kdelibs3-3.5.10-23.27.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2	kdelibs3 >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-32bit >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-default-style >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-default-style-32bit >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-default-style-x86 >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-x86 >= 3.5.10-23.27.1	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA kdelibs3-3.5.10-23.27.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3	kdelibs3 >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-32bit >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-default-style >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-default-style-32bit >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-default-style-x86 >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-x86 >= 3.5.10-23.27.1	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA kdelibs3-3.5.10-23.27.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4	kdelibs3 >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-32bit >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-arts >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-arts-32bit >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-arts-x86 >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-default-style >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-default-style-32bit >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-default-style-x86 >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-devel >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-doc >= 3.5.10-23.27.1 kdelibs3-x86 >= 3.5.10-23.27.1	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA kdelibs3-3.5.10-23.27.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA kdelibs3-32bit-3.5.10-23.27.1

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:40:28 2013
CVE page last modified: Sat Jun 15 20:52:21 2024