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Debian Lenny DSA-2037-1 Critical: KDM Race Condition Threat

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Calendar Grey April 17, 2010
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Recent updates to the kdm packages resolve a significant privilege escalation vulnerability in Debian, bolstering user protection.
Sebastian Krahmer discovered that a race condition in the KDE Desktop Environment's KDM display manager, allow a local user to elevate privileges to root
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Summary

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version
4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your kdm package.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1073859 4fcea749b80fe556f2a5b311495c75c6
Size/MD5 checksum: 27978023 497176f651e348722ed8a17bb437ac28
Size/MD5 checksum: 2921 a7026a6edffbad1207c03aa7c3e61c41

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1236508 1c9471e67998687a2886b1a3a4aa...

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