CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-2449

4.0 MEDIUM Published 2006-06-15 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2006-06-15
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• kde kde 3.2 • kde kde 3.2.1 • kde kde 3.2.2 • kde kde 3.2.3 • kde kde 3.3 • kde kde 3.3.1 • kde kde 3.3.2 • kde kde 3.4 • kde kde 3.4.1 • kde kde 3.4.2 • kde kde 3.4.3 • kde kde 3.5 • kde kde 3.5.2 • kde kde 3.5.3

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/20602 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20660 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20674 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20702 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20785 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20869 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20890 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21662 Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016297 securitytracker.com
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.444467 slackware.com
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1156 Vendor Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-23.xml www.gentoo.org
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060614-1.txt Vendor Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:105 www.mandriva.com
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:106 www.mandriva.com
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_39_kdm.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/26511 www.osvdb.org
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0548.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437133/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437322/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18431 www.securityfocus.com
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2355 www.vupen.com
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27181 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9844 oval.cisecurity.org
https://usn.ubuntu.com/301-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/20602 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20660 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20674 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20702 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20785 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20869 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20890 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21662 Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016297 securitytracker.com
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.444467 slackware.com
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1156 Vendor Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-23.xml www.gentoo.org
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060614-1.txt Vendor Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:105 www.mandriva.com
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:106 www.mandriva.com
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_39_kdm.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/26511 www.osvdb.org
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0548.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437133/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437322/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18431 www.securityfocus.com
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2355 www.vupen.com
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27181 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9844 oval.cisecurity.org
https://usn.ubuntu.com/301-1/ usn.ubuntu.com