A new kcheckpass vulnerability update is available for Ubuntu Linux. Here the announcement:
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-176-1 September 07, 2005
kdebase vulnerability
CAN-2005-2494
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)
The following packages are affected:
kdebase-bin
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 4:3.4.0-0ubuntu18.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is
sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
Ilja van Sprundel discovered a flaw in the lock file handling of
kcheckpass. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary
code with root privileges.
Source archives:
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/k/kdebase/kdebase_3.4.0-0ubuntu18.1.diff.gz
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Size/MD5: 1622 2a0d3a6c1e146f5b54b5e7a20bf58cea
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/k/kdebase/kdebase_3.4.0.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5: 26947670 31334d21606078a1f1eab1c3a25317e9
Architecture independent packages:
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Size/MD5: 4608912 0113ee173e4da0e4d3c233c4288ec667
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Size/MD5: 1084404 5715fca77f5f4224c63f78cb1e1b418d
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Size/MD5: 22020 a5cbdaa9f938a786b3cd74a6396d5e20
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Size/MD5: 37918 0440a29214683017d1548827d23216ef
amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)
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Size/MD5: 654580 3cecf0faa5052101ae9b78cdd419c506
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Size/MD5: 7957406 298659794585e115ea77e95145b93d13
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Size/MD5: 1152760 04be6e4170365ee880e3c4e8ec72de78
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Size/MD5: 60926 4e17272ffd172817699f091f1ba0ef1f
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Size/MD5: 807684 973dfa2562de81a394d58b5c500998ab
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Size/MD5: 227036 e8df4158d5c12c4f6002a8025244fc62
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Size/MD5: 1100276 bb6d55387499b8a346a851670dfd93c4
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Size/MD5: 670860 ac2219d79ad555f1099657708f2eb1c4
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Size/MD5: 185742 b072ff11f1270bcac9d9f207ae4c5cf5
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Size/MD5: 1784494 ddc8fafc29b6b807eebdd382b5160318
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Size/MD5: 1805694 10da13879440693317057681f8bb684e
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Size/MD5: 245018 eadf78db296c0129e13fadec01881a0b
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Size/MD5: 206766 f7bf70a03730ddebc1563ba840b5fe3b
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Size/MD5: 596520 8b2805d0f76e45f08103f43674ed1f55
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Size/MD5: 141976 eaa0af4be4cb4727ed5854df7232db57
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Size/MD5: 717412 b02564f2d21bc57cd717b7d283802c7d
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Size/MD5: 49706 d20e7d609588e5eeed182199ecfa7be8
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