CVE-2004-1171 - Balkier Laundry

Description

KDE 3.2.x and 3.3.0 through 3.3.2 when saving credentials that are (1) manually entered by the user or (2) created by the SMB protocol handler stores those credentials for plaintext in the user’s .desktop file which may be created with world-readable permissions which could allow local users to obtain usernames and passwords for remote resources such as SMB shares.

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11866 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/305294 http://www.sec-consult.com/index.php?id=118 http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20041209-1.txt http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-11/1292.html http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-16.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:150 http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-051.shtml http://www.osvdb.org/12248 http://securitytracker.com/id?1012471 http://secunia.com/advisories/13560 http://secunia.com/advisories/13477 http://secunia.com/advisories/13486 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110178786809694&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110261063201488&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18267