CVE-2007-5963

Summary

CVECVE-2007-5963
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-12-19 23:46:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionUnspecified vulnerability in kdebase allows local users to cause a denial of service (KDM login inaccessible, or resource consumption) via unknown vectors.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.7 from [email protected]

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

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

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Kde Kde All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
rPath update for kdebase - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Fedora update for kdebase - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
SecurityReason - rPath Linux 1 - Local Deterministic Denial of Service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: kdebase-3.5.8-31.fc8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1992 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com
KDE KDM Unspecified Local Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
osvdb.org/41395 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Advisories:rPSA-2007-0268 - rPath Wiki af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.rpath.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:017 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
KDE KDM Local Denial of Service Weakness - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: kdebase-3.5.8-31.fc7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2010-03-05Mark J CoxRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-5963 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, at this time Red Hat does not intend to address this flaw in a future update.
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