-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-9 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : kde-3.0.x SUMMARY : multiple vulnerabilities in KDE DATE : 2002-12-22 13:12 UTC EXPLOIT : remote - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - From advisory: "In some instances KDE fails to properly quote parameters of instructions passed to a command shell for execution. These parameters may incorporate data such as URLs, filenames and e-mail addresses, and this data may be provided remotely to a victim in an e-mail, a webpage or files on a network filesystem or other untrusted source. By carefully crafting such data an attacker might be able to execute arbitary commands on a vulnerable sytem using the victim's account and privileges. The KDE Project is aware of several possible exploits of these vulnerabilities and is releasing this advisory with patches to correct the issues. The patches also provide better safe guards and check data from untrusted sources more strictly in multiple places." Read the full advisory at http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20021220-1.txt INFORMATION REGARDING OTHER ARCHITECTURES THAN X86 kde-3.0.5a is currenlty only marked stable for x86. If you have succesfully compiled and merged 3.0.5a on any other architecture than x86 please report this to kde@gentoo.org. INFORMATION REGARDING KDE 2.2.2 AND KDE 3.1 The Gentoo KDE team is currently testing a new revision of KDE 2.2.2 that includes fixes for the vulnerabilities mentioned in KDEs security advisory. A new GLSA will be issued when those packages are available. KDE 3.1 has not yet been released by KDE. However, masked ebuilds exist in the portage tree for various release canidates. Since KDE has not released a new version that fixes these vulnerabilites no update is available for those who are currently running any version of the 3.1.x series. If KDE releases a new RC before the official release and when KDE 3.1 final is released a new GLSA will be issued to adress the vulnerabilites in the 3.1.x series. SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running kde-base/kde-3.0.4 and earlier in the 3.0.x series update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge kde emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz kde@gentoo.org - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+BcDAfT7nyhUpoZMRAgOVAJ9+6q+PanprNTsrcsXOIyNYxKC5SgCgu0uf 5DJ+2iGbIo/UfiY45AKXEvY= =3ZMj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
