Some of you don't know about SuSE Security e-lists, however, everyone should be aware of this nasty bug, so I've copied it here. Fred ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announcement Package: kbase 1.1 (klock, the KDE screensaver) Date: Wed Jun 30 14:32:05 CEST 1999 Affected: all Unix operating systems using kbase 1.1 ______________________________________________________________________________ A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above. Please update as soon as possible or disable the service if you are using this software on your SuSE Linux installation(s). Other Linux distributions or operating systems might be affected as well, please contact your vendor for information about this issue. Please note, that that we provide this information on as "as-is" basis only. There is no warranty whatsoever and no liability for any direct, indirect or incidental damage arising from this information or the installation of the update package. ______________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem Description The KDE screensaver klock includes a bug, which allows to bypass the password authentication. While klock waits for kcheckpass to verify the password a timer is triggered and the dialog box is deleted. After kcheckpass completes klock crashs. 2. Impact By typing in a specific key sequence everyone could bypass the password athentication of klock. 3. Solution Install the updated package, which is available from our ftp server. ______________________________________________________________________________ Here is the md5 checksum of the fixed package, please verify these before installing the new package: 85bbdeac8430918d52f9bbe93ee074f9 kbase-1.1.1-15.i386.rpm ______________________________________________________________________________ You will find the update on our ftp-Server: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/kde2/kbase-1.1.1-15.i386.rpm"><A HREF="ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/kde2/kbase-1.1.1-15.i386.rpm</A">ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/kde2/kbase-1.1.1-15.i386.rpm</A</A>> Webpage for patches: <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/patches/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/patches/index.html</A">http://www.suse.de/patches/index.html</A</A>> or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors: <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/ftp.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/ftp.html</A">http://www.suse.de/ftp.html</A</A>> <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html</A">http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html</A</A>> ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE has got two free security mailing list services to which any interested party may subscribe: suse-security@suse.com - unmoderated and for general/linux/SuSE security discussions. All SuSE security announcements are send to this list. suse-security-announce@suse.com - SuSE's announce-only mailing list. Only SuSE's security annoucements are sent to this list. To subscribe, send an email to majordomo@suse.com with the text subscribe suse-security or subscribe suse-security-announce in the body of the message. Or just issue a echo subscribe suse-security | mail majordomo@suse.com or echo subscribe suse-security-announce | mail majordomo@suse.com ______________________________________________________________________________ If you want to report *NEW* security bugs in the SuSE Linux Distribution please send an email to security@suse.de or call our support line. You may use pgp with the public key below to ensure confidentiality. ______________________________________________________________________________ This information is provided freely to everyone interested and may be redistributed provided that it is not altered in any way. Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 2048/3D25D3D9 1999/03/06 SuSE Security Team <security@suse.de> ____________ In self-defense, all Microsoft Office attachments are refused! Please don't send them! -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>