Security: Potential Local Root Exploit (Artswrapper)
Submitted by Dre on Mon, 2002/07/08 - 10:22amA possible local root exploit affecting all versions of artswrapper
(introduced in KDE 2 pre-releases) was posted late Sunday to some of the well-known
security websites. The exploit only affects installations which
have installed artswrapper
setuid "root".
A patch
(GPG
signature) against KDE 3.0.2 was released almost immediately (thanks