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kdeenu: buffer overflow in fliccd

Package(s):kdeenu kstars CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0011
Created:February 16, 2005 Updated:February 18, 2005
Description: Erik Sjolund discovered a buffer overflow in fliccd which is part of kdeedu, edutainment applications for KDE. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute code with elevated privileges. If fliccd does not run as daemon remote exploitation of this vulnerability is not possible.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2005-148 2005-02-17
Gentoo 200502-23 2005-02-16
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