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CVE-2005-0205

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
02/05/2005
Last modified:
03/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.60 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
4.60
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:bernd_wuebben:kppp:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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