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TITLE:
KDE KRunner Lock Module Race Condition Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38600

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38600/

DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been reported in KDE, which can be exploited by
malicious people with physical access to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The weakness is caused due to a race condition within the KRunner
lock module when forking password validating processes, which can be
exploited to e.g. cause a hang or potentially cause a crash, which
can lead to e.g. a screen locked with KScreenSaver to be unlocked.

The weakness is reported in KDE 4.4.0. Other versions are not
affected.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch:
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1089241

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by various persons.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20100217-1.txt
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217882

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