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Re: KDE Security Advisory: Multiple vulnerabilities in KDE

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (fozzy@dmpfrance.com)
Mon Dec 23 14:06:43 2002

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>         The KDE Project is not aware of any existing exploits of these 
>         vulnerabilities

I'd like to stress out that, due to the nature of these vulnerabilities,
exploitation can be very easy and "basic". Security-enhanced kernels
(preventing buffer overflows and format string attacks) will not help. A
bit like most MS Internet Explorer bugs BTW... ;-)
After I found out some of these problems, the KDE Security Team has done a
good job in finding and fixing all the potentially vulnerable instances of
code. This is a major fix, so consider upgrading soon !

Fozzy

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