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TITLE:
KDE Kommander Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15060

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15060/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
KDE 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/219/

DESCRIPTION:
Eckhart Wörner has reported a vulnerability in KDE, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a design error in Kommander, as it
executes data files containing scripts without user confirmation.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code on a
user's system via a malicious kommander file.

The vulnerability affects Quanta 3.1.x and KDE versions 3.2 through
3.4.0.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Patch for KDE 3.4.0:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.4.0-kdewebdev-kommander.diff
c388b21d91c8326fc9757cd8786713db

Patch for KDE 3.3.2:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.3.2-kdewebdev-kommander.diff
d210c07121c1ba3a97660a6e166738e6

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Eckhart Wörner

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
KDE:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050420-1.txt

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