Race Condition Affecting kde/kdelibs package, versions [,3.80.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KDEKDELIBS-2365421
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Jul 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Jul 2017

CVE-2015-7543  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kde/kdelibs to version 3.80.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition aRts 1.5.10 and kdelibs3 3.5.10 and earlier do not properly create temporary directories, which allows local users to hijack the IPC by pre-creating the temporary directory.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1