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Security: Advisory for kcheckpass

Tuesday, 6 September 2005  |  Binner

The KDE security team has published a security advisory concerning a local root vulnerability: kcheckpass can, in some configurations, be used to gain root access. All KDE releases starting from KDE 3.2.0 up to including KDE 3.4.2 are affected.

Comments:

Good work Ilja! - Coolvibe - 2005-09-06

I actually know the guy that found the vulnerability. Great that this gets relayed to the kde team. Many eyes make bugs shallow :)

Re: Good work Ilja! - me - 2005-09-06

from netric?

security is as security does - kde user - 2005-09-06

I think security is as security does