Package : kdm (kdebase)
Vulnerability : race condition
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2010-0436
Sebastian Krahmer discovered that a race condition in the KDE Desktop Environment's KDM display manager, allow a local user to elevate privileges
to root.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6+lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your kdm package.
Upgrade instructions
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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 5.0 alias lenny
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