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Gentoo Security Update Fixes KDE Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes KDE Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2008-1460
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1671
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-05-09

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

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

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1460
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-30.xml

ChangeLog

2008-05-09 : Initial release

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