"Affected: SuSE Linux 8.2Pro Not affected: SuSE Linux 7.3Pro, non-SuSE distributions Possibly affected: other SuSE distributions Vulnerable package: susewm Impact: Local user can gain root privileges Exploit type: Symlink attack Release date: October 6th 2003 Vendor status: SuSE was contacted on September 4th (> 1 month ago). No SuSE-patch yet. A symlink vulnerability exists in the shell script /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.susewm, line 86. This shell script is part of the "susewm" package. This package is required by the package "kdebase3", so if KDE3 is installed on your system(s), you should be vulnerable." ...please read the link I provided for further details http://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~nordhaus/sec/vul/1_index.html