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Ubuntu 9.10 Security Advisory: KDM Privilege Escalation Risk

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Calendar Grey April 19, 2010
Scroller Ubuntu Esm H88
Vulnerability found in KDM; recommend updating several Ubuntu versions to reduce threats.
Sebastian Krahmer discovered a race condition in the KDE Display Manager(KDM)

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security advisory update privilege escalation Ubuntu KDE local threat risk analysis

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kdebase-workspace vulnerability

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