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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.6

CVE-2005-0078 json

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…

published 2005-01-29 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0079

cvss
4.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 32%
public exploits
0
none known

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.

Patch / fix

  • kdebase RHEL 3 6:3.1.3-5.8
  • kdelibs RHEL 3 6:3.1.3-6.9

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:009

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2005-0078 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 kdebase 3.1.3-5.8, kdelibs 3.1.3-6.9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 kdebase 3.1.3-5.8, kdelibs 3.1.3-6.9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 kdebase 3.1.3-5.8, kdelibs 3.1.3-6.9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 kdebase 3.1.3-5.8, kdelibs 3.1.3-6.9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:009

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.