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[DSA660] DSA-660-1 kdebase

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-660-1 kdebase

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Rapha�l Enrici discovered that the KDE screensaver can crash under
certain local circumstances. This can be exploited by a possible hacker
with physical access to the workstation to take over the desktop
session.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.2-14.9.
This problem has been fixed upstream in KDE 3.0.5 and is therefore
fixed in the unstable (sid) and testing (sarge) distributions already.
We recommend that you upgrade your kscreensaver package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-660
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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