Slackware 10.x: 2006-178-01 Critical KDM Local File Read Issue
slackware
June 28, 2006
New kdebase packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue with KDM (the KDE login manager) which could be exploited by a local attacke...
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/kdebase-3.4.2-i486-3_slack10.2.tgz: Patched a problem with kdm where it could be abused to read any file on the system. The official KDE security advisory may be found here: https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060614-1.txt The CVE entry for this issue may be found here: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-2449 (* Security fix *)
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Where Find New Packages
HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com?
Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site
for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading
from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 10.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.0/patches/packages/kdebase-3.2.3-i486-4_slack10.0.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 10.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.1/patches/packages/kdebase-3.3.2-i486-3_slack10.1.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 10.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/patches/packages/kdebase-3.4.2-i486-3_slack10.2.tgz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 10.0 package:
70c7adc94a16c3e66a59e0cb4c47c0f2 kdebase-3.2.3-i486-4_slack10.0.tgz
Slackware 10.1 package:
70b86d1f8412cf4a8d31037a15c288e7 kdebase-3.3.2-i486-3_slack10.1.tgz
Slackware 10.2 package:
cb89a316532b897454388c004b9aa6ec kdebase-3.4.2-i486-3_slack10.2.tgz
Slackware -current package:
57977010882f353df29e5b46bb9ddb74 kdebase-3.5.3-i486-2.tgz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg kdebase-3.4.2-i486-3_slack10.2.tgz
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