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Kommander Untrusted Code Execution
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SUMMARY
Kommander is "a visual editor and interpreter to edit and interpret visual
dialogs and execute scripts attached to dialog actions".
Kommander executes without user confirmation data files from possibly
untrusted locations. As they contain scripts, the user might accidentally
run arbitrary code.
DETAILS
Systems affected:
* Quanta 3.1.x, KDE 3.2 and new up to including KDE 3.4.0
Impact:
Remotly supplied kommander files from untrusted sources are executed
without confirmation.
Solution:
Source code patches have been made available which fix these
vulnerabilities. Contact your OS vendor / binary package provider for
information about how to obtain updated binary packages.
Patch:
A patch for KDE 3.4.0 is available from
<ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches>
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches :
c388b21d91c8326fc9757cd8786713db post-3.4.0-kdewebdev-kommander.diff
A patch for KDE 3.3.2 is available from
<ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches>
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches :
d210c07121c1ba3a97660a6e166738e6 post-3.3.2-kdewebdev-kommander.diff
Time line and credits:
13/03/2005 Notification of KDE security by Eckhart W rner
20/04/2005 Public Disclosure
CVE Information:
<http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0754>
CAN-2005-0754
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The information has been provided by <mailto:dirk@kde.org> Dirk Mueller.
The original article can be found at:
<http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050420-1.txt>
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050420-1.txt
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