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Debian DSA-204-1 : kdelibs - arbitrary program execution

high Nessus Plugin ID 15041

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The KDE team has discovered a vulnerability in the support for various network protocols via the KIO. The implementation of the rlogin and telnet protocols allows a carefully crafted URL in an HTML page, HTML email or other KIO-enabled application to execute arbitrary commands on the system using the victim's account on the vulnerable machine.

This problem has been fixed by disabling rlogin and telnet in version 2.2.2-13.woody.5 for the current stable distribution (woody). The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected since it doesn't contain KDE. A correction for the package in the unstable distribution (sid) is not yet available.

Solution

Upgrade the kdelibs3 package immediately.

See Also

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

http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-204

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 15041

File Name: debian_DSA-204.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 12/5/2002

Reference Information

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

DSA: 204