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CVE-2008-1671

Public Date:: 2008-04-26

Bugzilla:: 443768: CVE-2008-1671 kdelibs: multiple vulnerabilities in start_kdeinit

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-1671 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect versions of KDE as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

Last Modified 2018-04-27T23:20:50+00:00

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