CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1671
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-04-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-16
Description
start_kdeinit in KDE 3.5.5 through 3.5.9, when installed setuid root, allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via "user-influenceable input" (probably command-line arguments) that cause start_kdeinit to send SIGUSR1 signals to other processes.
Affected configurations
• kde kde 3.5.5
• kde kde 3.5.6
• kde kde 3.5.7
• kde kde 3.5.8
• kde kde 3.5.9
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-kde-3.5.5-kinit.diff Exploit
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29951 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29977 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30113 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-30.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20080426-2.txt www.kde.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:097 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28938 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019924 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-608-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1370/references www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42039 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-kde-3.5.5-kinit.diff Exploit
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29951 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29977 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30113 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-30.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20080426-2.txt www.kde.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:097 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28938 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019924 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-608-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1370/references www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42039 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com