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Secunia Advisory SA14254

KDE kdelibs dcopidlng Script Insecure Temporary File Creation
Secunia Advisory SA14254
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Release Date 2005-02-14
Last Update 2005-03-16
   
Popularity 12,133 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Privilege escalation
Where Local system
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Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
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Software:
KDE 3.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2005-0365 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Davide Madrisan has reported a vulnerability in KDE kdelibs, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges on a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the dcopidlng script creating temporary files insecurely. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files on the system with the privileges of the user invoking the vulnerable script.

The vulnerability affects all versions in the KDE 3.2.x and KDE 3.3.x series.


Solution
Upgrade to KDE 3.4 or apply patch.
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Provided and/or discovered by
Davide Madrisan

Changelog
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Original Advisory
KDE:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050316-3.txt

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