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KDE ArtsWrapper Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released an advisory and patches to address this issue.

Please see the referenced advisories for more information.


KDE aRts 1.2.x

• KDE arts-1.2.x.diff
  ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/arts-1.2.x.diff


• Slackware arts-1.3.2-i486-2_slack10.1.tgz
  Slackware 10.1:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.0/patches/packages/

KDE aRts 1.0.x

• KDE arts-1.0.x-diff
  ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/arts-1.0.x-diff

BEAST/BSE BEAST/BSE 0.7

• BEAST/BSE beast-0.7.1.tar.bz2
  ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast/v0.7/beast-0.7.1.tar.bz2

KDE KDE 3.2.3

• Slackware kdebase-3.2.3-i486-4_slack10.0.tgz
  Slackware 10.0:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.0/patches/packages/ kdebase-3.2.3-i486-4_slack10.0.tgz

KDE KDE 3.3.2

• Slackware kdebase-3.3.2-i486-3_slack10.1.tgz
  Slackware 10.1:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.1/patches/packages/ kdebase-3.3.2-i486-3_slack10.1.tgz

KDE KDE 3.4.2

• Slackware kdebase-3.4.2-i486-3_slack10.2.tgz
  Slackware 10.2:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/patches/packages/ kdebase-3.4.2-i486-3_slack10.2.tgz