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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1671

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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-1671

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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