KDE Security Advisory: Multiple vulnerabilities in KDE Original Release Date: 2002-12-20 URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20021220-1.txt 0. References None. 1. Systems affected: All KDE 2 releases and all KDE 3 releases (up to and including KDE 3.0.5). 2. Overview: 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 not aware of any existing exploits of these vulnerabilities, but 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. 3. Impact: The vulnerabilities potentially enable local or remote attackers to compromise the privacy of a vicitim's data and to execute arbitrary shell commands with the victim's privileges, such as erasing files or accessing or modifying data. 4. Solution: The code audit resulted in several fixes which have been applied to the KDE 2.2.x and each KDE 3.x branch. All identified problems have been corrected in KDE 3.0.5a. For affected KDE 3.0 systems, we strongly recommend upgrading to this latest stable release. KDE 3.0.5a can be downloaded from http://download.kde.org/stable/3.0.5a/ Please visit the 3.0.5a Info Page (http://www.kde.org/info/3.0.5a.html) and your vendor's website for exact package locations and information about available binary packages or updates. For affected KDE 2 systems, a patch for the 2.2.2 source code has been made available which fixes these vulnerabilities. Contact your OS vendor / binary package provider for information about how to obtain updated binary packages. 5. Patches: Patches are available for KDE 2.2.2 from the KDE FTP server (ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/): MD5SUM PATCH 522331e2b47f84956eb2df1fcf89ba17 post-2.2.2-kdebase.diff 0dbd747882b942465646efe0ba6af802 post-2.2.2-kdegames.diff 4b9c93acd452d1de2f4f0bca5b05593f post-2.2.2-kdegraphics.diff 93a12594d0fb48c7b50bfd4a10a9935d post-2.2.2-kdelibs.diff d1d25b39ee98e340ac3730f7afe54f0c post-2.2.2-kdemultimedia.diff 59ac7be4995bed8b119a4e5882e54cff post-2.2.2-kdenetwork.diff 0a3ae9eeeceefb2f631a26ec787663a9 post-2.2.2-kdepim.diff 690c7fdab1bbc743eafac9b06997a03b post-2.2.2-kdesdk.diff 8174e328f47e18a8a52b13b34f5c54e5 post-2.2.2-kdeutils.diff 6. Timeline and credits: 11/26/2002 FozZy of the "Hackademy Audit Project" notified the KDE Security Team <security@kde.org> about vulnerable code parts. 11/27/2002 Patches for the initially reported vulnerabilites were applied to KDE CVS. 11/27/2002 An audit of KDE CVS was started to find more instances of the problematic code sequences. 12/06/2002 KDE 3.1 release was delayed because the audit was not yet finished. 12/17/2002 Patches for KDE 2.2.2 were created. 12/20/2002 KDE 3.0.5a tarballs were generated and released. 12/21/2002 Public Security Advisory by the KDE Security team.
kde-3.0.5a is in portage, marked stable for x86 and ~ for ppc & alpha. once it's stable for all archs we should have a glsa.
glsa is sent (thanks, aliz), so i'll close this.
