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Debian DSA-234-1 : kdeadmin - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 15071

Synopsis

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

Description

The KDE team discovered several vulnerabilities in the K Desktop Environment. In some instances KDE fails to properly quote parameters of instructions passed to a command shell for execution. These parameters may incorporate data such as URLs, filenames and e-mail addresses, and this data may be provided remotely to a victim in an e-mail, a webpage or files on a network filesystem or other untrusted source.

By carefully crafting such data an attacker might be able to execute arbitrary commands on a vulnerable system using the victim's account and privileges. The KDE Project is not aware of any existing exploits of these vulnerabilities. The patches also provide better safe guards and check data from untrusted sources more strictly in multiple places.

Solution

Upgrade the KDE packages.

For the current stable distribution (woody), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.2-7.2.

The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain KDE packages.

See Also

http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20021220-1.txt

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-234

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 15071

File Name: debian_DSA-234.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:kdeadmin, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/22/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1393

DSA: 234