ghsa-59rx-cg4h-mhrj
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-03 03:19
Modified
2022-05-03 03:19
Details

start_kdeinit in KDE 3.5.5 through 3.5.9, when installed setuid root, allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via "user-influenceable input" (probably command-line arguments) that cause start_kdeinit to send SIGUSR1 signals to other processes.

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2008-1671"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2008-04-28T17:05:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "start_kdeinit in KDE 3.5.5 through 3.5.9, when installed setuid root, allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via \"user-influenceable input\" (probably command-line arguments) that cause start_kdeinit to send SIGUSR1 signals to other processes.",
  "id": "GHSA-59rx-cg4h-mhrj",
  "modified": "2022-05-03T03:19:16Z",
  "published": "2022-05-03T03:19:16Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1671"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42039"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/29951"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/29977"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/30113"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-30.xml"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20080426-2.txt"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:097"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28938"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019924"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-608-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1370/references"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": []
}


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