Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:11:32 -0200
From: secure@CONECTIVA.COM.BR
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: [CLA-2001:378] Conectiva Linux Security Announcement -
kde2
CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
PACKAGE : kde2
SUMMARY : Password sniffing via kdesu
DATE : 2001-01-30 14:05:00
ID : CLA-2001:378
RELEVANT
RELEASES : 6.0
DESCRIPTION
"kdesu" is an utility called by some graphic programs when they
need to execute something as another user, typically root. This
utility then prompts for the password. There is a vulnerability in
kdesu which allows for other users on the machine to capture that
password and thus potencially compromise the root account.
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
Users of Conectiva Linux version 6.0 or higher may use apt to
perform upgrades:
- add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list if it is not
there yet (you may also use linuxconf to do this):
