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CVE-2005-0078

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 3.0
• Kde: 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 2.0, 2.0.1 (+13)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 2.1, 3.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 3.0
• RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation: 2.1

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-660
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-009.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19084
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9260
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-660
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-009.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19084
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9260

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