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The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

kcheckpass in KDE 3.2.0 up to 3.4.2 allows local users to gain root access via a symlink attack on lock files.

Find out more about CVE-2005-2494 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kdebase)	RHSA-2006:0582	2006-08-10

Last Modified 2018-08-17T00:35:40+00:00