Security Advisory

CVE-1999-1270

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2001-09-12 04:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-01 17:11:01

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

KMail in KDE 1.0 provides a PGP passphrase as a command line argument to other programs, which could allow local users to obtain the passphrase and compromise the PGP keys of other users by viewing the arguments via programs that list process information, such as ps.

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