aru Posted May 8, 2003 Report Share Posted May 8, 2003 MandrakeSoft Security Advisory MDKSA-2003:055 : kopete May 8th, 2003 Updated kopete packages fix vulnerability with GnuPG plugin A vulnerability was discovered in versions of kopete, a KDE instant messenger client, prior to 0.6.2. This vulnerabiliy is in the GnuPG plugin that allows for users to send each other GPG-encrypted instant messages. The plugin passes encrypted messages to gpg, but does no checking to sanitize the commandline passed to gpg. This can allow remote users to execute arbitrary code, with the permissions of the user running kopete, on the local system. The released versions of Mandrake GNU/Linux affected are: 9.1 [*] 9.1/PPC Full information about this advisory, including the updated packages, is available at: www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2003:055 Other references: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?n...e=CAN-2003-0256 http://kopete.kde.org/index.php?page=newss...s_version_0.6.2 Posted automatically by aru (mdksec2mub v0.0.5) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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