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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-608-1 May 06, 2008 kdelibs vulnerability CVE-2008-1671 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 7.04 Ubuntu 7.10 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 7.04: kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.6-0ubuntu14.3 Ubuntu 7.10: kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.8-0ubuntu3.4 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7.1 After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: It was discovered that start_kdeinit in KDE 3 did not properly sanitize its input. A local attacker could exploit this to send signals to other processes and cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-1671)