Bug 69575 - Security problem with kdeinit (3.0.0)
Summary: Security problem with kdeinit (3.0.0)
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 69692
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kdelibs
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: wdovlrrw
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-23 12:29 UTC by Bert DeKnuydt
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2002-07-23 21:14:12 UTC
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2002-07-23 12:33 UTC, Bert DeKnuydt 		no flags Details
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Description Bert DeKnuydt 2002-07-23 12:29:56 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020607

Description of problem:
There is a serious security problem with kdeinit, and possibly several
other KDE applications tools etc.  The following description is 
for kdelibs-3.0.0-10 as shipped by RedHat 7.3 intel.

Short description:
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Kdeinit looks for shared libraries in non-system directories.  This can allow a
malicious local user to gain root access if root runs kde.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.See attachment. Not describable in 3 lines.
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Actual Results:  Crash (good) and/or loading of arbitrary libraries (bad).

Expected Results:  Not search along untrusted relative paths for shared libraries.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Bert DeKnuydt 2002-07-23 12:33:08 UTC 
Created attachment 66524 [details]
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Comment 2 Bert DeKnuydt 2002-07-23 21:14:08 UTC 
coolo at kde dot org pointed me that Qt is the culprit.  

readelf -d /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so (from qt-3.0.3-11)
shows an rpath like '../lib/'  Qt2 seems to be okay.
Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2002-08-13 12:10:58 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69692 ***
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