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. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6+lenny1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your kdm package.
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.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6+lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your kdm package.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.