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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-2449

NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE.

Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2006-2449

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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