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Gentoo GLSA 200710-15 High Risk for KDM Local Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey October 15, 2007
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Gentoo GLSA 202301-01 highlights potential local privilege escalation through LightDM without authentication. Recommended for impacted users to perform an upgrade.
KDM allows logins without password under certain circumstances allowing a local user to gain elevated privileges.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200710-15
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: High
     Title: KDM: Local privilege escalation
      Date: October 14, 2007
      Bugs: #192373
        ID: 200710-15


Synopsis
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KDM allows logins without password under certain circumstances allowing
a local user to gain elevated privileges.

Background
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KDM is the Display Manager for the graphical desktop environment KDE.
It is part of the kdebase package.

Affected packages
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