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KDE langen2kvtml Insecure Temporary File Creation
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA16428
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Release Date:
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2005-08-15
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Popularity:
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8,661 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | KDE 3.x
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in KDE, 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 langen2kvtml creating temporary files insecurely. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files on the system with the privileges of the user executing the vulnerable script.
The vulnerability affects KDE 3.0 through KDE 3.4.2.
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