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Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdelibs (MDKSA-2002:079)

high Nessus Plugin ID 13977

Synopsis

The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Vulnerabilities were discovered in the KIO subsystem support for various network protocols. The implementation of the rlogin protocol affects all KDE versions from 2.1 up to 3.0.4, while the flawed implementation of the telnet protocol only affects KDE 2.x. They allow a carefully crafted URL in an HTML page, HTML email, or other KIO-enabled application to execute arbitrary commands as the victim with their privilege.

The KDE team provided a patch for KDE3 which has been applied in these packages. No patch was provided for KDE2, however the KDE team recommends disabling both the rlogin and telnet KIO protocols. This can be accomplished by removing, as root, the following files:
/usr/share/services/telnet.protocol and /usr/share/services/rlogin.protocol. If either file also exists in a user's ~/.kde/share/services directory, they should likewise be removed.

Solution

Update the affected kdelibs and / or kdelibs-devel packages.

See Also

http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20021111-1.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 13977

File Name: mandrake_MDKSA-2002-079.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 7/31/2004

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:kdelibs, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:kdelibs-devel, cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Mandrake/release, Host/Mandrake/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1281, CVE-2002-1282

MDKSA: 2002:079