Vulnerability CVE-2008-1671
Published: 2008-04-28   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-16

 (Configuration)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
KDE -> KDE 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42039
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1370/references
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-608-1
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019924
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28938
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:097
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20080426-2.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/30113
http://secunia.com/advisories/29951
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-kde-3.5.5-kinit.diff
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-30.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/29977
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
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