Kde CVE-1999-1270 Local Security Vulnerability

Kde is prone to a local security vulnerability. KMail in KDE 1.0 provides a PGP passphrase as a command line argument to other programs, which could allow local users to obtain the passphrase and compromise the PGP keys of other users by viewing the arguments via programs that list process information, such as ps.


 

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