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Mandriva Security Update Fixes KDE Privilege Escalation Vulnerability


Title : Mandriva Security Update Fixes KDE Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2008-1442
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1671
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-05-07

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A vulnerability has been identified in Mandriva, which could be exploited by local attackers to bypass security restrictions and gain elevated privileges [...]

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

Mandriva Linux 2008.0:
6e9ec4d86831c1de8d97b1143e412094 2008.0/i586/kdelibs-common-3.5.7-43.8mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
13c4540bad80e97dea7d4f0ae0b85e48 2008.0/i586/kdelibs-devel-doc-3.5.7-43.8mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
e37ee088e281f3ac22aaa9a2cf967bff 2008.0/i586/libkdecore4-3.5.7-43.8mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
68de2c2c0c4aefaae88598329c4ae842 2008.0/i586/libkdecore4-devel-3.5.7-43.8mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
f88003b0ee66bf4bcb456b7352972507 2008.0/SRPMS/kdelibs-3.5.7-43.8mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64:
f22003b71a01cde99bbec436462d8b89 2008.0/x86_64/kdelibs-common-3.5.7-43.8mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
d22e1bbc15d300768f58c75d810bb799 2008.0/x86_64/kdelibs-devel-doc-3.5.7-43.8mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
d52a94a110cd8ccf0611f1c199f0ee91 2008.0/x86_64/lib64kdecore4-3.5.7-43.8mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
7fd7f380efa11735eb0b4a174f5c7ade 2008.0/x86_64/lib64kdecore4-devel-3.5.7-43.8mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
f88003b0ee66bf4bcb456b7352972507 2008.0/SRPMS/kdelibs-3.5.7-43.8mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.1:
3fdded980feeb40749c9fbef31c8274d 2008.1/i586/kdelibs-common-3.5.9-10.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
c0bba005dbc4013ff8cbe933ff9e5584 2008.1/i586/kdelibs-devel-doc-3.5.9-10.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
8867c7c83437e532b632a3a8f578e39d 2008.1/i586/libkdecore4-3.5.9-10.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
eec45645cada33b83c4394cdfca05af8 2008.1/i586/libkdecore4-devel-3.5.9-10.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
5d6b90aaf30b609c801e6d41727be2a4 2008.1/SRPMS/kdelibs-3.5.9-10.1mdv2008.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.1/X86_64:
880a8c5c0efe5688bbbcacda27866b32 2008.1/x86_64/kdelibs-common-3.5.9-10.1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
e217bf386a48838736364332c9919639 2008.1/x86_64/kdelibs-devel-doc-3.5.9-10.1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
cd18170a8fe9c90e577e2a322f6e6146 2008.1/x86_64/lib64kdecore4-3.5.9-10.1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
c28603d515c0d86f5ac782541c5b24a9 2008.1/x86_64/lib64kdecore4-devel-3.5.9-10.1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
5d6b90aaf30b609c801e6d41727be2a4 2008.1/SRPMS/kdelibs-3.5.9-10.1mdv2008.1.src.rpm

ChangeLog

2008-05-07 : Initial release

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