CVE-2006-2449 (GCVE-0-2006-2449)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-06-15 10:00
Modified
2024-08-07 17:51
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
KDE Display Manager (KDM) in KDE 3.2.0 up to 3.5.3 allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack related to the session type for login.
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/21662 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/20890 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/20674 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.osvdb.org/26511 vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB
http://secunia.com/advisories/20702 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0548.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016297 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:106 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
https://usn.ubuntu.com/301-1/ vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/20602 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27181 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/20869 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9844 vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2355 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/20660 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1156 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437133/100/0/threaded mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_39_kdm.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060614-1.txt x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-23.xml vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.444467 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SLACKWARE
http://secunia.com/advisories/20785 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:105 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437322/100/0/threaded mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18431 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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