A vulnerability has been found in kde KDE SC 4.4.0 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code of the component Screen Lock. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Race condition in workspace/krunner/lock/lockdlg.cc in the KRunner lock module in kdebase in KDE SC 4.4.0 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass KScreenSaver screen locking and access an unattended workstation by pressing the Enter key at a certain time, related to multiple forked processes.

The weakness was disclosed 03/03/2010 (Website). The advisory is available at vupen.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2010-0923 since 03/03/2010. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

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• kde

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• KDE SC

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• 4.4.0

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• open-source

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