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Red Hat update for kdebase
Secunia Advisory: SA21203
Release Date: 2006-07-26
Popularity: 5,109 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 3

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-2933


Description:
Red Hat has issued an update for kdebase. This fixes a security issue, which may lead to malicious people with physical access to a system to access to a user's desktop session.

The problem is caused due to an error in the kdesktop_lock application that may occasionally block screensavers from activating or local users from manually locking their desktop session.

Solution:
Updated packages are available from Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com/

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported in a Red Hat advisory.

Original Advisory:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0576.html


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