FKIE_CVE-2005-0078

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2005-05-02 04:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:10
Severity
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-660Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-009.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19084
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9260
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-660Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-009.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19084
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9260
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
debian debian_linux 3.0
kde kde 1.0
kde kde 1.1
kde kde 1.1.1
kde kde 1.1.2
kde kde 2.0
kde kde 2.0.1
kde kde 2.1
kde kde 2.1_beta1
kde kde 2.1_beta2
kde kde 2.2
kde kde 2.2.1
kde kde 2.2_beta1
kde kde 3.0
kde kde 3.0.1
kde kde 3.0.2
kde kde 3.0.3
kde kde 3.0.4
kde kde 3.0_beta_1
kde kde 3.0_beta_2
redhat enterprise_linux 2.1
redhat enterprise_linux 2.1
redhat enterprise_linux 2.1
redhat enterprise_linux 3.0
redhat enterprise_linux 3.0
redhat enterprise_linux 3.0
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop 3.0
redhat linux_advanced_workstation 2.1
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