kdesu Local Password Sniffing Vulnerability

BID:2320

Info

kdesu Local Password Sniffing Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 2320
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jan 23 2001 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 23 2001 12:00AM
Credit: Reported to bugtraq by Caldera Systems in a security advisory on January 23, 2001.
Vulnerable: KDE KDE 2.0 BETA
KDE KDE 2.0
Not Vulnerable: 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

Discussion

kdesu Local Password Sniffing Vulnerability

kdesu permits a user to run a program as a different user by providing that user's password.

Versions of kdesu are vulnerable to a weak password protection scheme.

It is possible for a user on the system to intercept the password supplied at the command line.

This may lead to an elevation of privileges for the attacker.

References

kdesu Local Password Sniffing Vulnerability

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