References:

[1] http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/648
[2] http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/653

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Hi, Albert from KDE, can we get a CVE assigned for kdesu?

The problem is that you could sneak an unicode string terminator in the kdesu invocation
and the label showing which command will be executed ended there but we did execute the whole thing,
that is,
  
   echo Hi@; whoami > /tmp/filebyroot

If @ is the unicode string terminator would only tell the user kdesu would execute "echo Hi"
but would create the /tmp/filebyroot file as root

The fix is already available at
https://github.com/KDE/kde-cli-tools/commit/5eda179a099ba68a20dc21dc0da63e85a565a171
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    The problem is that you could sneak an unicode string terminator in the kdesu invocation
    and the label showing which command will be executed ended there but we did execute the whole thing,
    that is,

       echo Hi@; whoami > /tmp/filebyroot

    If @ is the unicode string terminator would only tell the user kdesu would execute "echo Hi"
    but would create the /tmp/filebyroot file as root

    The fix is already available at
    https://github.com/KDE/kde-cli-tools/commit/5eda179a099ba68a20dc21dc0da63e85a565a171


Make sure people are not trying to sneak invisible characters on the kdesu label
        kdesu.cpp


Use CVE-2016-7787.

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