CVE-2005-0205

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Summary

CVECVE-2005-0205
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-05-02 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionKPPP 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.6 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Bernd Wuebben Kppp 2.1.2 All All All
Operating System Kde Kde 3.1 All All All
Operating System Kde Kde 3.1.1 All All All
Operating System Kde Kde 3.1.2 All All All
Operating System Kde Kde 3.1.3 All All All
Operating System Kde Kde 3.1.4 All All All
Operating System Kde Kde 3.1.5 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-692-1 kdenetwork af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050228-1.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kde.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Accenture | Let there be change af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.idefense.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Home - Conectiva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 distro.conectiva.com.br Patch
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