kde 3.5.5 kdeinit setuid is always enabled?

Dirk Mueller mueller at kde.org
Thu Oct 26 07:07:33 BST 2006


On Wednesday 25 October 2006 23:33, Benjamin Reed wrote:

> I'm not sure why this wouldn't be happening everywhere, but the new
> setuid kdeinit stuff causes my ~/.ICEauthority file to be created
> owned by root, which subsequently causes authentication errors and kde
> fails to start:

Arrrrghhhhh. Yet another security vulnerability thanks to some stupid broken 
hack. 

Please try if r599168 or newer fixes it for you. 


Dirk




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