CVE-2004-0689 Information

Description

KDE before 3.3.0 does not properly handle when certain symbolic links point to \stale\ locations which could allow local users to create or truncate arbitrary files.

Reference

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000864 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109225538901170&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/12276/ http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-13.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-539 http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20040811-1.txt https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16963 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9334