CVE-2008-1671 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1671
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Description: start_kdeinit in KDE 3.5.5 through 3.5.9, when installed setuid root, allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via "user-influenceable input" (probably command-line arguments) that cause start_kdeinit to send SIGUSR1 signals to other processes.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42039 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-608-1 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html ST 1019924 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29951 Secunia Advisory: SA29977 Secunia Advisory: SA30113 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:097 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-30.xml CONFIRM http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20080426-2.txt BID 28938

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