CVE-2005-0205

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2005-02-28
Bugzilla:
1617492: CVE-2005-0205 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2005-0205 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (kdenetwork) RHSA-2005:175 2005-03-03
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (kdenetwork) RHSA-2005:175 2005-03-03

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