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FreeBSD Ports: kdelibs

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

FreeBSD Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.6

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

7 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.

Insight

Insight

The following package is affected: kdelibs CVE-2004-0689 KDE before 3.3.0 does not properly handle when certain symbolic links point to 'stale' locations, which could allow local users to create or truncate arbitrary files. CVE-2004-0690 The DCOPServer in KDE 3.2.3 and earlier allows local users to gain unauthorized access via a symlink attack on DCOP files in the /tmp directory.

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20040811-1.txt http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20040811-2.txt ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.2.3-kdelibs-kstandarddirs.patch ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.2.3-kdelibs-dcopserver.patch http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/603fe36d-ec9d-11d8-b913-000c41e2cdad.html

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