Fedora Core 3 : kdelibs-3.3.1-2.14.FC3 (2005-594)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19230

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

A flaw was discovered affecting Kate, the KDE advanced text editor, and Kwrite. Depending on system settings it may be possible for a local user to read the backup files created by Kate or Kwrite. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2005-1920 to this issue.

Users of Kate or Kwrite should update to this erratum package which contains a backported patch from the KDE security team correcting this issue.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected kdelibs, kdelibs-debuginfo and / or kdelibs-devel packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f3dba188

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19230

File Name: fedora_2005-594.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/20/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kdelibs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kdelibs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kdelibs-devel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 7/19/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1920

FEDORA: 2005-594