Several vulnerabilities were reported in KDE, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. These flaws reside in the "fliccd" binary of KStars, wich may be exploited by an attacker to execute code with elevated privileges.
Note : If fliccd is running as daemon, remote exploitation of this vulnerability is possible.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Erik Sjolund
ChangeLog
2005-02-16 : Initial release
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