Title: KDE smbview Readable Command Line Password Argument
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered in smbview shipped with the K Desktop Environment (KDE). It has been reported that smbview takes a user's password as a command-line argument. This presents a security risk as information passed via the command line may be viewable by other local users.
A malicious local attacker may take advantage of this issue to steal another legitimate user's SMB password. This may aid the attacker in launching further attacks against a target user.
Affected Products:
- Conectiva Linux 8.0.0
- Conectiva Linux Enterprise Edition 1.0.0
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.7.0 -STABLE
- Gentoo Linux 1.2.0
- Gentoo Linux 1.4.0 _rc1
- KDE KDE 3.0.0
- KDE KDE 3.0.1
- KDE KDE 3.0.2
- KDE KDE 3.0.3
- KDE KDE 3.0.4
- KDE KDE 3.0.5
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 8.2.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 9.0.0
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