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KDE kfax libtiff vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA13394
Release Date: 2004-12-10
Last Update: 2004-12-14
Popularity: 8,149 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:KDE 3.x

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Description:
KDE Security Team has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in KDE, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to kfax including vulnerable libtiff code, which can be exploited via specially crafted fax files to execute arbitrary code.

For more information:
SA12818

The vulnerabilities affects all versions prior to 3.3.2.

NOTE: A potential privacy issue has also been reported.

Change Page:
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