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CVE-2006-2449

Published: 15/06/2006 Updated: 18/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.9
VMScore: 356
Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
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Vulnerability Summary

KDE Display Manager (KDM) in KDE 3.2.0 up to 3.5.3 allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack related to the session type for login.

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kde kde 3.5

kde kde 3.2

kde kde 3.2.1

kde kde 3.4.1

kde kde 3.4.2

kde kde 3.3

kde kde 3.3.1

kde kde 3.5.2

kde kde 3.5.3

kde kde 3.3.2

kde kde 3.4

Vendor Advisories

Ubuntu Security Notice: kdebase vulnerability
Ludwig Nussel discovered that kdm managed the ~/dmrc file in an insecure way By performing a symlink attack, a local user could exploit this to read arbitrary files on the system, like private files of other users, /etc/shadow, and similarly sensitive data ...

References

NVD-CWE-Otherhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0548.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18431http://securitytracker.com/id?1016297http://secunia.com/advisories/20602http://secunia.com/advisories/20660http://secunia.com/advisories/20674http://secunia.com/advisories/20702http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060614-1.txthttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-23.xmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/20785http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.444467http://secunia.com/advisories/20869http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_39_kdm.htmlhttp://www.osvdb.org/26511http://secunia.com/advisories/20890http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1156http://secunia.com/advisories/21662http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:105http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:106http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2355https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27181https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9844https://usn.ubuntu.com/301-1/http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437322/100/0/threadedhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437133/100/0/threadedhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/301-1/https://nvd.nist.gov
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