CVE-2005-0365

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 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 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.

Affected products

Kde: 3.2.x, 3.3.x

References

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97608
http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2005-245.shtml
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110814653804757&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/14254
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-14.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013525
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050316-2.txt
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:045
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:058
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-325.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10676
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97608

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