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Gentoo: 202104-09 Urgent: GNOME 3.x Remote Code Exploitation Vulnerability

An attacker can prepare a malicious PostScript or PDF file which will provide the attacker with access to the victim's account and privileges.. - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200304-05 - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : kde-2.x SUMMARY : aribitrary code execution DATE : 2003-04-11 08:43 UTC EXPLOIT : remote VERSIONS AFFECTED : =kdegraphics-2.2.2-r2 CVE : - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- - From advisory: "KDE uses Ghostscript software for processing of PostScript (PS) and PDF files in a way that allows for the execution of arbitrary commands that can be contained in such files. An attacker can prepare a malicious PostScript or PDF file which will provide the attacker with access to the victim's account and privileges when the victim opens this malicious file for viewing or when the victim browses a directory containing such malicious file and has file previews enabled. An attacker can provide malicious files remotely to a victim in an e-mail, as part of a webpage, via an ftp server and possible other means." Read the full advisory at: https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20030409-1.txt SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running kde-base/kde upgrade to fixed packages as follows: emerge sync emerge \=kde-base/kdebase-2.2.2-r5 emerge \=kde-base/kdelibs-2.2.2a-r1 emerge \=kde-base/kdegraphics-2.2.2-r2 emerge clean - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - GnuPG key is available at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- . Debian GNU/Linux security advisory for gnome-2.x points out possible threats of unauthorized code execution due to specially designed documents.. Gentoo Linux,kde 2.x,arbitrary code execution. . Severity: Important.LinuxSecurity.com Team

Apr 11, 2003 •Important Gentoo