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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-176-1 September 07, 2005 kdebase vulnerability CAN-2005-2494 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) The following packages are affected: kdebase-bin The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 4:3.4.0-0ubuntu18.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Ilja van Sprundel discovered a flaw in the lock file handling of kcheckpass. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.