A vulnerability has been identified in KDE, which could be exploited by malicious users to bypass security restrictions and potentially obtain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by an error in the KDE Display Manager (KDM) that fails to properly validate user-supplied login credentials when the "autologin" and "shutdown with password" options are enabled, which could be exploited by malicious users to login as another user (including "root") without properly supplying login credentials.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Kees Huijgen.
ChangeLog
2007-09-20 : Initial release
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