KDE Insecure Temporary Directory Symlink Vulnerability

BID:10922

Info

KDE Insecure Temporary Directory Symlink Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 10922
Class: Race Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2004-0689
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Aug 11 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 06:16AM
Credit: Andrew Tuitt disclosed this vulnerability to the SuSE Security Team.
Vulnerable: Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0 AMD64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2 amd64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2
KDE KDE 3.2.3
KDE KDE 3.2.2
+ KDE KDE 3.2.2
+ Redhat Fedora Core2
 KDE KDE 3.2.1
KDE KDE 3.2
KDE KDE 3.1.5
KDE KDE 3.1.4
KDE KDE 3.1.3
+ Redhat Desktop 3.0
+ Redhat Desktop 3.0
+ Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 3
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 3
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 3
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 3
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 3
 KDE KDE 3.1.2
+ KDE KDE 3.1.2
KDE KDE 3.1.1 a
KDE KDE 3.1.1
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 8.2
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 8.2
KDE KDE 3.1
+ Redhat Linux 9.0 i386
 + SuSE Linux 8.1
+ SuSE Linux 8.1
KDE KDE 3.0.5 b
KDE KDE 3.0.5 a
+ Redhat Linux 8.0 i386
 + Redhat Linux 7.3 i386
 + Redhat Linux 7.3 i386
 KDE KDE 3.0.5
KDE KDE 3.0.4
+ Gentoo Linux 1.4 _rc1
 + Gentoo Linux 1.2
+ Gentoo Linux 1.2
KDE KDE 3.0.3 a
KDE KDE 3.0.3
+ Conectiva Linux Enterprise Edition 1.0
+ FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.7 -STABLE
 + FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.7 -STABLE
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.0
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.0
KDE KDE 3.0.2
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.2
KDE KDE 3.0.1
KDE KDE 3.0
KDE KDE 2.2.2
+ Debian Linux 3.0 sparc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 sparc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.0 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.0 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
 + Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
 + Debian Linux 3.0
+ Debian Linux 3.0
+ Debian Linux 2.2 sparc
 + Debian Linux 2.2 powerpc
 + Debian Linux 2.2 IA-32
 + Debian Linux 2.2 arm
 + Debian Linux 2.2 alpha
 + Debian Linux 2.2 68k
 + Debian Linux 2.2
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.2 ppc
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.2 ppc
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.2
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.2
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1 ia64
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1 ia64
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1
+ Redhat Advanced Workstation for the Itanium Processor 2.1
+ Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 IA64
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 IA64
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1 IA64
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1 IA64
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1 IA64
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1 IA64
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
 + Redhat Linux 7.2 ia64
 + Redhat Linux 7.2 ia64
 + Redhat Linux 7.2 i386
 + Redhat Linux 7.2 i386
 + Redhat Linux 7.1 i386
 + Redhat Linux 7.1 i386
 + Redhat Linux Advanced Work Station 2.1
+ Sun Linux 5.0.7
+ Sun Linux 5.0.7
+ Sun Linux 5.0.6
+ Sun Linux 5.0.6
+ Sun Linux 5.0.5
+ Sun Linux 5.0.5
KDE KDE 2.2.1
+ Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1.1
+ Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1.1
+ Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1
+ Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1
+ Caldera OpenLinux Workstation 3.1.1
+ Caldera OpenLinux Workstation 3.1
+ Caldera OpenLinux Workstation 3.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1 ia64
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1
KDE KDE 2.2
KDE KDE 2.1.2
KDE KDE 2.1.1
KDE KDE 2.1
KDE KDE 2.0.1
KDE KDE 2.0 BETA
KDE KDE 2.0
KDE KDE 1.2
- SuSE Linux 6.4
KDE KDE 1.1.2
+ Caldera OpenLinux 2.3
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.0
KDE KDE 1.1.1
KDE KDE 1.1
Gentoo Linux 1.4
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

KDE Insecure Temporary Directory Symlink Vulnerability

KDE is reported to contain a temporary directory symlink vulnerability. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of the ownership of temporary directories.

Local attackers can cause KDE applications to fail, denying service to users, or to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the target user. Privilege escalation may be possible.

Source patches have been made available by KDE to resolve this issue.

Exploit / POC

KDE Insecure Temporary Directory Symlink Vulnerability

An exploit is not required.

Solution / Fix

KDE Insecure Temporary Directory Symlink Vulnerability

Solution:
Gentoo Linux has released advisory GLSA 200408-13 addressing this, and other issues. Please see the referenced advisory for further information. Users of affected packages are urged to execute the following commands with superuser privileges:
emerge sync
emerge -pv ">=kde-base/kdebase-3.2.3-r1"
emerge ">=kde-base/kdebase-3.2.3-r1"
emerge -pv ">=kde-base/kdelibs-3.2.3-r1"
emerge ">=kde-base/kdelibs-3.2.3-r1"

OpenBSD has included patches to fix this issue in OpenBSD-current as of 14 Aug 2004. These patches have not been included in 3.4 or 3.5 at the time of this update.

Debian has released an advisory (DSA 539-1) to address this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

Mandrake Linux has released an advisory (MDKSA-2004:086) along with fixes to address this, and other issues. Please see the referenced advisory for further information.

KDE has released patches resolving this issue:

RedHat has released advisories (FEDORA-2004-290, FEDORA-2004-291) to address various issues affecting KDE in Fedora Core 1 and Core 2. Please see the referenced advisories for more information.

Conectiva Linux has released advisory CLA-2004:864 along with fixes dealing with this and other issues. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

Red Hat has released an advisory (RHSA-2004:412-10) to address various issues affecting KDE in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Please see the advisory in Web references for more information.


KDE KDE 2.2.2

KDE KDE 3.0

KDE KDE 3.0.1

KDE KDE 3.0.2

KDE KDE 3.0.3 a

KDE KDE 3.0.3

KDE KDE 3.0.4

KDE KDE 3.0.5

KDE KDE 3.0.5 b

KDE KDE 3.0.5 a

KDE KDE 3.1

KDE KDE 3.1.1

KDE KDE 3.1.1 a

KDE KDE 3.1.2

KDE KDE 3.1.3

KDE KDE 3.1.4

KDE KDE 3.1.5

KDE KDE 3.2

KDE KDE 3.2.1

KDE KDE 3.2.2

KDE KDE 3.2.3

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