USN-301-1: kdm vulnerability
15 June 2006
kdm vulnerability
Releases
Details
Ludwig Nussel discovered that kdm managed the ~/.dmrc file in an
insecure way. By performing a symlink attack, a local user could
exploit this to read arbitrary files on the system, like private files
of other users, /etc/shadow, and similarly sensitive data.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 6.06
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kdm
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4:3.5.2-0ubuntu27
Ubuntu 5.10
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kdm
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4:3.4.3-0ubuntu7
Ubuntu 5.04
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kdm
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4:3.4.0-0ubuntu18.3
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.