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CVE-2005-0205

CVE information

Published

18 years ago

Last Modified

6 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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Description

KPPP 2.1.2 in KDE 3.1.5 and earlier, when setuid root without certain wrappers, does not properly close a privileged file descriptor for a domain socket, which allows local users to read and write to /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf and gain control over DNS name resolution by opening a number of file descriptors before executing kppp..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
4.6/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
6.4/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
Partial

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:bernd_wuebben:kppp:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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