National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2449

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Solution

Vendor links provide patches for each version affected. }

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-301-1

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-301-1

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060614 [KDE Security Advisory] KDM symlink attack vulnerability

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/437133/100/0/threaded

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2006:0548

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0548.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-2355

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2355

External Source: BID

Name: 18431

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18431

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060615 rPSA-2006-0106-1 kdebase

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/437322/100/0/threaded

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 26511

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/26511

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2006:039

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_39_kdm.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060614-1.txt

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060614-1.txt

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200606-23

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-23.xml

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1156

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1156

External Source: SLACKWARE

Name: SSA:2006-178-01

Hyperlink:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.444467

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1016297

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016297

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21662

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21662

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20890

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20890

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20869

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20869

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20785

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20785

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20702

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20702

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20674

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20674

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20660

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20660

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20602

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20602

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9844

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9844

External Source: XF

Name: kde-kdm-symlink(27181)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/27181

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDKSA-2006:106

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:106

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDKSA-2006:105

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:105

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9844

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9844