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kdebase: privilege escalation

Package(s):kdebase CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2449
Created:June 15, 2006 Updated:August 28, 2006
Description: The KDE Display Manager(KDM) is vulnerable to a local symlink attack. A local user can use this to read arbitrary files that they do not have permission to access. See this KDE advisory for more information.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2006-942 2006-08-28
Debian DSA-1156-1 2006-08-27
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0576-01 2006-07-25
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:039 2006-07-03
Slackware SSA:2006-178-01 2006-06-28
Gentoo 200606-23 2006-06-22
Fedora FEDORA-2006-726 2006-06-19
Fedora FEDORA-2006-725 2006-06-19
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:106 2006-06-15
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:105 2006-06-15
rPath rPSA-2006-0106-1 2006-06-15
Ubuntu USN-301-1 2006-06-14
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0548-01 2006-06-14
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