CVE-2008-1671

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-04-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Kde: 3.5.5, 3.5.6, 3.5.7, 3.5.8, 3.5.9

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29951
http://secunia.com/advisories/29977
http://secunia.com/advisories/30113
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-30.xml
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20080426-2.txt
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:097
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28938
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019924
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-608-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1370/references

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