GLSA: kde-2.2.x

[Daniel Ahlberg <aliz () gentoo org>]

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200301-11
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PACKAGE : kde-2.2.x
SUMMARY : multiple vulnerabilites in KDE
DATE    : 2003-01-18 02:47 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote

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- 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

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aliz () gentoo org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz
kde () gentoo org
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