Published: 28/09/2004 Updated: 26/01/2024

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.1 | Impact Score: 5.2 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 409

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

KDE prior to 3.3.0 does not properly handle when certain symbolic links point to "stale" locations, which could allow local users to create or truncate arbitrary files.

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Synopsis kdelibs, kdebase security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated kdelib and kdebase packages that resolve multiple security issuesare now available Description The kdelibs packages include libraries for the K Desktop EnvironmentThe kdebase packages include ...

The SUSE security team was alerted that in some cases the integrity of symlinks used by KDE are not ensured and that these symlinks can be pointing to stale locations This can be abused by a local attacker to create or truncate arbitrary files or to prevent KDE applications from functioning correctly For the stable distribution (woody) this probl ...

CWE-59 http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20040811-1.txt http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-539 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-13.xml http://secunia.com/advisories/12276/http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000864 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109225538901170&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16963 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9334 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004:412 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-539

CVE-2004-0689

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