Vulnerability CVE-2010-0436
Published: 2010-04-15   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Race condition in backend/ctrl.c in KDM in KDE Software Compilation (SC) 2.2.0 through 4.4.2 allows local users to change the permissions of arbitrary files, and consequently gain privileges, by blocking the removal of a certain directory that contains a control socket, related to improper interaction with ksm.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
KDE3/4 KDM TOCTTOU local root exploit
x90c
03.11.2013

Type:

CWE-362

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.9/10
10/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
KDE -> Kde sc 

 References:
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0879
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/kdebase-workspace-4.3.5-CVE-2010-0436.diff
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570613
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/57823
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39467
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20100413-1.txt
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2037
http://secunia.com/advisories/39506
http://secunia.com/advisories/39481
http://secunia.com/advisories/39419
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0348.html
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9999
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00002.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039533.html
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