Published: 06/09/2005 Updated: 11/10/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 641

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

kcheckpass in KDE 3.2.0 up to 3.4.2 allows local users to gain root access via a symlink attack on lock files.

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Ilja van Sprundel discovered a flaw in the lock file handling of kcheckpass A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with root privileges ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050905-1.txt ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.4.2-kdebase-kcheckpass.diff http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv6.pdf http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-815 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:160 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-176-1 http://secunia.com/advisories/16692 http://secunia.com/advisories/18139 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0582.html http://secunia.com/advisories/21481 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14736 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112611555928169&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112603999215453&w=2 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9388 https://usn.ubuntu.com/176-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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