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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.54406
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu USN-150-1 (kdelibs)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to kdelibs
announced via advisory USN-150-1.

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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)

The following packages are affected:

kdelibs4

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 4:3.4.0-0ubuntu3.3. In general, a standard system upgrade is
sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

Kate and Kwrite create a backup file before saving a modified file.
These backup files were created with default permissions, even if the
original file had more strict permissions set, so that other local
users could possibly read the backup file even if they are not
permitted to read the original file.



Solution:
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-150-1

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
5.0

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 14297
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-1920
1014512
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014512
14297
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14297
16099
http://secunia.com/advisories/16099
20050718 [KDE Security Advisory]: Kate backup file permission leak
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112171434023679&w=2
23099
http://secunia.com/advisories/23099
DSA-804
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-804
FLSA:178606
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427976/100/0/threaded
GLSA-200611-21
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-21.xml
RHSA-2005:612
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-612.html
SUSE-SR:2005:018
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050718-1.txt
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9434
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9434
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