CVE-2006-2449

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CVE-2006-2449

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CVE-2006-2449 at MITRE

Description

KDE Display Manager (KDM) in KDE 3.2.0 up to 3.5.3 allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack related to the session type for login.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4
Vector	AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	None

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 180704 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SA:2006:039, published Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:00:00 +0000

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:49:30 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:16:19 2023