ID CVE-2005-0365
Summary The dcopidlng script in KDE 3.2.x and 3.3.x creates temporary files with predictable filenames, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
References
Vulnerable Configurations
  • cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.2.x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.2.x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.3.x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.3.x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVSS
Base: 2.1 (as of 11-10-2017 - 01:29)
Impact:
Exploitability:
CWE NVD-CWE-Other
CAPEC
Access
VectorComplexityAuthentication
LOCAL LOW NONE
Impact
ConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
NONE PARTIAL NONE
cvss-vector via4 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
oval via4
accepted 2013-04-29T04:07:39.700-04:00
class vulnerability
contributors
  • name Aharon Chernin
    organization SCAP.com, LLC
  • name Dragos Prisaca
    organization G2, Inc.
definition_extensions
  • comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11831
  • comment CentOS Linux 4.x
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16636
  • comment Oracle Linux 4.x
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15990
description The dcopidlng script in KDE 3.2.x and 3.3.x creates temporary files with predictable filenames, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
family unix
id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10676
status accepted
submitted 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00
title The updatePosition function in lib/xmltok_impl.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in Python, PyXML, w3c-libwww, and other software, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with crafted UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625.
version 29
redhat via4
advisories
rhsa
id RHSA-2005:325
rpms
  • kdelibs-6:3.3.1-3.6
  • kdelibs-debuginfo-6:3.3.1-3.6
  • kdelibs-devel-6:3.3.1-3.6
refmap via4
bugtraq 20050211 insecure temporary file creation in kdelibs 3.3.2
confirm
fedora FEDORA-2005-245
gentoo GLSA-200503-14
mandrake
  • MDKSA-2005:045
  • MDKSA-2005:058
sectrack 1013525
secunia 14254
Last major update 11-10-2017 - 01:29
Published 02-05-2005 - 04:00
Last modified 11-10-2017 - 01:29
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