KDE Plaintext Password Disclosure Vulnerability

BID:11866

Info

KDE Plaintext Password Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 11866
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2004-1171
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Dec 09 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 08:07AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to Daniel Fabian.
Vulnerable: SuSE Linux 8.1
SuSE Linux 8.0 i386
SuSE Linux 8.0
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0 x86_64
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 8.2
Redhat Fedora Core3
Redhat Fedora Core2
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.1 x86_64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.1
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0 AMD64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0
KDE KDE 3.3.2
+ Debian Linux 3.1 sparc
 + Debian Linux 3.1 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.1 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.1 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.1 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.1 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.1 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.1 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.1 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.1 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.1 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.1 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.1 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.1 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.1 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.1 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.1 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.1 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.1 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.1 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.1 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.1 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.1 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.1 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.1 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.1 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.1 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.1 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.1 amd64
 + Debian Linux 3.1 amd64
 + Debian Linux 3.1 amd64
 + Debian Linux 3.1 alpha
 + Debian Linux 3.1 alpha
 + Debian Linux 3.1 alpha
 + Debian Linux 3.1
+ Debian Linux 3.1
+ Debian Linux 3.1
KDE KDE 3.3.1
+ Redhat Fedora Core3
 KDE KDE 3.3
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
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

KDE Plaintext Password Disclosure Vulnerability

KDE is reported prone to a plaintext password disclosure vulnerability. This issue presents itself when a link to a remote file is created by various KDE applications including Konqueror Web browser. The URI may contain authentication credentials to access the remote resource such as a Samba share.

An attacker can disclose these credentials by accessing the potentially world readable link reference file created by KDE.

Exploit / POC

KDE Plaintext Password Disclosure Vulnerability

An exploit is not required to leverage this issue.

Solution / Fix

KDE Plaintext Password Disclosure Vulnerability

Solution:
KDE security has released patches to address this issue in KDE 3.2.3, 3.3.1, and 3.3.2. Please see the KDE advisory in Web references for more information.

RedHat has released advisories FEDORA-2004-548, FEDORA-2004-549, FEDORA-2004-550, and FEDORA-2004-551 to address this issue in Fedora Core 2 and 3. Please see the referenced advisories for further information.

Mandrake has released advisory MDKSA-2004:150 and fixes to address this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for further information.

Gentoo has released an advisory to provide updates for this issue. Updates may be applied by running the following commands as the superuser:

(For kdelibs)
emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=kde-base/kdelibs-3.2.3-r4"

(For kdebase)
emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=kde-base/kdebase-3.2.3-r3"

SuSE Linux has released a security summary report (SUSE-SR:2005:003) that contains fixes to address this and other vulnerabilities. Customers are advised to peruse the referenced advisory for further information regarding obtaining and applying appropriate updates.


KDE KDE 3.2

KDE KDE 3.2.1

KDE KDE 3.2.2

KDE KDE 3.2.3

KDE KDE 3.3

KDE KDE 3.3.1

KDE KDE 3.3.2

References

KDE Plaintext Password Disclosure Vulnerability

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