SUSE Security Announcement SUSE-SA:2006:039 - The KDE Display Manager KDM stores the type of the previously used session in the user's home directory. By using a symlink a local attacker could trick kdm into also storing content of files that are normally not accessible by users, like for instance /etc/shadow.
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