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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.6

CVE-2005-0205 json

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…

published 2005-02-28 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0206

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 29%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • kdenetwork RHEL 3 7:3.1.3-1.8

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:175

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-2005-0205 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 kdenetwork 3.1.3-1.8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 kdenetwork 3.1.3-1.8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 kdenetwork 3.1.3-1.8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 kdenetwork 3.1.3-1.8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:175

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Exploit prediction

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29% 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.