USN-176-1: kcheckpass vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 5.04

Details

Ilja van Sprundel discovered a flaw in the lock file handling of
kcheckpass. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary
code with root privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.04

• kdebase-bin -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2005-2494