CVE-2004-1171 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2004-1171
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Description: KDE 3.2.x and 3.3.0 through 3.3.2, when saving credentials that are (1) manually entered by the user or (2) created by the SMB protocol handler, stores those credentials for plaintext in the user's .desktop file, which may be created with world-readable permissions, which could allow local users to obtain usernames and passwords for remote resources such as SMB shares.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/18267 ST 1012471 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA13477 Secunia Advisory: SA13560 Secunia Advisory: SA13486 OSVDB 12248 MISC http://www.sec-consult.com/index.php?id=118 MANDRAKE http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:150 GENTOO http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-16.xml FULLDISC http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-11/1292.html CONFIRM http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20041209-1.txt CIAC http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-051.shtml CERT-VN 305294 BUGTRAQ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=110261063201488&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=110178786809694&w=2 BID 11866

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