CVE-2008-1671
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-04-28 17:00
Modified
2024-08-07 08:32
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
start_kdeinit in KDE 3.5.5 through 3.5.9, when installed setuid root, allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via "user-influenceable input" (probably command-line arguments) that cause start_kdeinit to send SIGUSR1 signals to other processes.
References
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