Package : kdelibs Vulnerability : temporary directory vulnerability Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-0689
The SUSE security team was alerted that in some cases the integrity of symlinks used by KDE are not ensured and that these symlinks can be pointing to stale locations. This can be abused by a local attacker to create or truncate arbitrary files or to prevent KDE applications from functioning correctly.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.2-13.woody.12.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.0-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your kde packages.
Upgrade Instructions --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody --------------------------------
