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Debian DSA-2037-1 : kdm (kdebase) - race condition

medium Nessus Plugin ID 45559

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Synopsis

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

Description

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that a race condition in the KDE Desktop Environment's KDM display manager, allow a local user to elevate privileges to root.

Solution

Upgrade the kdm package.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6+lenny1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2037

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 45559

File Name: debian_DSA-2037.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/19/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdebase, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/17/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0436

BID: 39467

DSA: 2037