41394 : KDE KDM backend/session.c Login Password Check Bypass
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Disclosure Date
2007-09-19

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2007-4569" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : backend/session.c in KDM in KDE 3.3.0 through 3.5.7, when autologin is configured and "shutdown with password" is enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass the password requirement and login to arbitrary accounts via unspecified vectors.

Classification

Unknown or Incomplete

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1018724
CVE ID: 2007-4569 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 25730
Secunia Advisory ID: 26894 26904 26915 26977 27089 27096 27106 27180 27271
ISS X-Force ID: 36711
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2007-3227
Other Advisory URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2007/msg00143.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00006.html
http://lists.rpath.com/pipermail/security-announce/2007-September/000248.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-15.xml
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070919-1.txt
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:190
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00022.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00084.html
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2007:0905

Tools & Filters

	26079 26113 26900 26951 27217 27769 28122 29429

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 6.8
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-09-24 | Disagree?

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