KDE start_kdeinit: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities in start_kdeinit could possibly allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. kdelibs April 29, 2008 April 08, 2009: 02 218933 local 3.5.8-r4 3.5.9-r3 4.0 3.5.5 3.5.10-r2 4.0

KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. start_kdeinit is a wrapper for kdeinit.

Vulnerabilities have been reported in the processing of user-controlled data by start_kdeinit, which is setuid root by default.

A local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with root privileges, cause a Denial of Service or send Unix signals to other processes, when start_kdeinit is setuid root.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All kdelibs users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r4" CVE-2008-1671 vorlon vorlon