SciLinux: 2010-04-14 Important KDEbase Update for SL4.x and SL5.x

Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:02:02 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: kdebase on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: kdebase security update
Issue date:	2010-04-14
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-0436

A privilege escalation flaw was found in the KDE Display Manager (KDM).
A local user with console access could trigger a race condition,
possibly resulting in the permissions of an arbitrary file being set to
world writable, allowing privilege escalation. (CVE-2010-0436)

The system should be rebooted for this update to take effect. After the
reboot, administrators should manually remove all leftover user-owned
dmctl-* directories in "/var/run/xdmctl/".

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
kdebase-3.3.1-13.el4_8.1.src.rpm
 i386:
kdebase-3.3.1-13.el4_8.1.i386.rpm
kdebase-devel-3.3.1-13.el4_8.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
kdebase-3.3.1-13.el4_8.1.i386.rpm
kdebase-3.3.1-13.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm
kdebase-devel-3.3.1-13.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
kdebase-3.5.4-21.el5_5.1.src.rpm
 i386:
kdebase-3.5.4-21.el5_5.1.i386.rpm
kdebase-devel-3.5.4-21.el5_5.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
kdebase-3.5.4-21.el5_5.1.i386.rpm
kdebase-3.5.4-21.el5_5.1.x86_64.rpm
kdebase-devel-3.5.4-21.el5_5.1.i386.rpm
kdebase-devel-3.5.4-21.el5_5.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson