10 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.009 Low
EPSS
Percentile
82.9%
KDM is the desktop manager included with the K Desktop Environment.
Firstly, versions of KDM <=3.1.3 are vulnerable to a privilege escalation bug with a specific configuration of PAM modules. Users who do not use PAM with KDM and users who use PAM with regular Unix crypt/MD5 based authentication methods are not affected.
Secondly, KDM uses a weak cookie generation algorithm. Users are advised to upgrade to KDE 3.1.4, which uses /dev/urandom as a non-predictable source of entropy to improve security.
A remote or local attacker could gain root privileges.
There is no known workaround at this time.
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running kde-base/kdebase <=3.1.3 upgrade:
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv '>=kde-base/kde-3.1.4'
# emerge '>=kde-base/kde-3.1.4'
# emerge clean
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gentoo | any | all | kde-base/kdebase | <= 3.1.3 | UNKNOWN |