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TITLE:
KDE start_kdeinit Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29951

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29951/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, DoS

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
KDE 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/219/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in KDE, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or to
potentially gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the start_kdeinit
script (installed setuid root by default). This can be exploited to
send signals to privileged processes, cause a DoS, or potentially
execute arbitrary code in the context of the target process.

The vulnerability is reported in KDE 3.x versions 3.5.5 and later,
running on Linux operating systems.

SOLUTION:
Apply vendor patch.
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-kde-3.5.5-kinit.diff

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20080426-2.txt

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