Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.51023
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2003:270
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2003:270. KDE is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System. KDE between versions 2.2.0 and 3.1.3 inclusive contain a bug in the KDE Display Manager (KDM) when checking the result of a pam_setcred() call. If an error condition is triggered by the installed PAM modules, KDM might grant local root access to any user with valid login credentials. It has been reported that one way to trigger this bug is by having a certain configuration of the MIT pam_krb5 module that leaves a session alive and gives root access to a regular user. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2003-0690 to this issue. In addition, the session cookie generation algorithm used by KDM was considered too weak to supply a full 128 bits of entropy. This could make it possible for non-authorized users, who are able to bypass any host restrictions, to brute-force the session cookie and gain acess to the current session. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2003-0692 to this issue. Users of KDE are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages, which contain security patches correcting these issues. Red Hat would like to thank the KDE team for notifying us of this issue and providing the security patches. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-270.html http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20030916-1.txt Risk factor : Critical CVSS Score: 10.0
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2003-0690 Bugtraq: 20030916 [KDE SECURITY ADVISORY] KDM vulnerabilities (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106374551513499&w=2 Conectiva Linux advisory: CLA-2003:747 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000747 Debian Security Information: DSA-388 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-388 Debian Security Information: DSA-443 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-443 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:091 http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/suse/security/2002/12/msg00101.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A193 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-270.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-286.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-287.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-288.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-289.html Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2003-0692 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A215
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