| Name | CVE-2016-7787 |
| Description | A maliciously crafted command line for kdesu can result in the user only seeing part of the commands that will actually get executed as super user. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 839865, 842498, 843790 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| kde-cli-tools (PTS) | bullseye | 4:5.20.5-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 4:5.27.5.1-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4:5.27.11-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[jessie] - kde-runtime <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - kde-runtime <not-affected> (Unicode string terminator is not interpreted)
[stretch] - kdesudo <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - kdesudo <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - kdesudo <not-affected> (Unicode string terminator is not interpreted)
https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20160930-1.txt
https://github.com/KDE/kde-cli-tools/commit/5eda179a099ba68a20dc21dc0da63e85a565a171
For kde-cli-tools fixed in 5.7.5 upstream
kde-runtime's affected binary is /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu-distrib/kdesu
kdesudo's affected binary is /usr/bin/kdesudo