-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200301-11 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : kde-2.2.x SUMMARY : multiple vulnerabilites in KDE DATE : 2003-01-18 02:47 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 Updated kde-2.2.2 ebuilds are currently only marked stable for x86. If you have succesfully compiled, merged and used kde-2.2.2 on any other architecture than x86 please report this to kde@gentoo.org. SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running kde-base/kde-2.2.x upgrade to kde*-2.2.2-{r1,r2,r4} as follows: emerge sync emerge -u \=kde-base/kde-2.2* 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+KMBWfT7nyhUpoZMRAs9DAJ9uFIDTzigQcPFyIJ7IKBfwxnnuqQCgo54W uqM1nqqXfCxsSd03+DGtEYU= =UdE9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
