KDE KDM Vulnerability Elevation of Privilage 4-13-10

[Texstar]

Sebastian Krahmer from the SUSE Security team has found a vulnerability in KDM which will allow a local user to elevate their privileges to root access. kdebase4-workspace-4.4.2-4pclos2010.i586.rpm fixes this local exploit and is already included on the 2010 KDE full release and as a normal update to KDE MiniME 2010.