A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)
The following packages are affected:
kdebase-bin
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 4:3.4.0-0ubuntu18.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
Ilja van Sprundel discovered a flaw in the lock file handling of kcheckpass. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.