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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200710-15">
+ <title>KDM: Local privilege escalation</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ KDM allows logins without password under certain circumstances allowing a
+ local user to gain elevated privileges.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">KDM</product>
+ <announced>2007-10-14</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2007-10-14</revised>
+ <bug>192373</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="kde-base/kdm" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">3.5.7-r2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">3.5.7-r2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ <package name="kde-base/kdebase" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">3.5.7-r4</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">3.5.7-r4</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ KDM is the Display Manager for the graphical desktop environment KDE.
+ It is part of the kdebase package.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Kees Huijgen discovered an error when checking the credentials which
+ can lead to a login without specifying a password. This only occurs
+ when auto login is configured for at least one user and a password is
+ required to shut down the machine.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>
+ A local attacker could gain root privileges and execute arbitrary
+ commands by logging in as root without specifying root's password.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All KDM users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=kde-base/kdm-3.5.7-r2"</code>
+ <p>
+ All kdebase users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=kde-base/kdebase-3.5.7-r4"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4569">CVE-2007-4569</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-10-08T00:34:30Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-10-08T00:49:35Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-10-08T02:58:05Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>