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TITLE:
KDE KDM Socket Race Condition Privilege Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39393

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DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in KDE, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to a race condition within KDM when
creating the control socket during a user login. This can be
exploited to change the access permissions of arbitrary files to
world-writable, which can be leveraged to e.g. execute arbitrary code
with escalated privileges.

The security issue is reported in KDE SC 2.2.0 through KDE SC 4.4.2.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch if available.

KDE 4.3.x-4.4.x:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/kdebase-workspace-4.3.5-CVE-2010-0436.diff

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Sebastian Krahmer from the SUSE Security Team.

CHANGELOG:
2010-04-14: Added CVE reference.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20100413-1.txt

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