CVE-2006-2449 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-2449
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Description: KDE Display Manager (KDM) in KDE 3.2.0 up to 3.5.3 allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack related to the session type for login.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/27181 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-301-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_39_kdm.html ST 1016297 SLACKWARE http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.444467 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA20602 Secunia Advisory: SA20660 Secunia Advisory: SA20674 Secunia Advisory: SA20702 Secunia Advisory: SA20785 Secunia Advisory: SA20869 Secunia Advisory: SA20890 Secunia Advisory: SA21662 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0548.html OSVDB 26511 MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:106 http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:105 GENTOO http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-23.xml DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1156 CONFIRM http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060614-1.txt BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/437322/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/437133/100/0/threaded BID 18431

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