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Secunia Advisory SA16099

KDE Kate / KWrite Backup File Insecure File Permissions
Secunia Advisory SA16099
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Release Date 2005-07-19
   
Popularity 12,619 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
KDE 3.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2005-1920 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

bjoern has reported a security issue in Kate and KWrite, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain knowledge of certain information.

The security issue is caused due to backup files being created with default permissions even when the original file had more restrictive permissions set. This can potentially disclose the contents of files edited by other users.

The security issue has been reported in all versions of Kate and Kwrite shipped with KDE 3.2.x through 3.4.0.


Solution
Apply patches.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
bjoern

Original Advisory
KDE:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050718-1.txt

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