Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Slackware, which could be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service or gain elevated privileges. These issues are caused by errors in KDE. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1370

Affected Products

Slackware 12.0

Solution

Updated package for Slackware 12.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/kdelibs-3.5.7-i486-4_slack12.0.tgz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/kde/kdelibs-3.5.9-i486-4.tgz

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1376
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.375422

ChangeLog

2008-04-29 : Initial release

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