CVE-2005-0078

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

The KDE screen saver in KDE before 3.0.5 does not properly check the return value from a certain function call, which allows attackers with physical access to cause a crash and access the desktop session.

The KDE screen saver in KDE before 3.0.5 does not properly check the return value from a certain function call, which allows attackers with physical access to cause a crash and access the desktop session.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Red Hat

First reported 19 years ago

2005-05-02 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Desktop 3.0

3.0

Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1

2.1

References

DSA-660

Patch, Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2005:009

Patch, Vendor Advisory

kdebase-screensaver-security-bypass(19084)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9260

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