Vulnerability in KDE
CVE-2008-1671
start_kdeinit in KDE 3.5.5 through 3.5.9, when installed setuid root, allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via "user-influenceable input" (probably command-line arguments) that cause start_kdeinit to send SIGUSR1 signals to other processes.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.006 (47.9th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 48th percentile — 47.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- KDE — versions 3.5.5, 3.5.6, 3.5.7
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/30113 (third-party-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-30.xml (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/29977 (third-party-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-608-1 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/29951 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1370/references (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/28938 (vdb-entry)
- www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20080426-2.txt