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CVE-2005-2494

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: 2005-09-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

• Kde: 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.3.0, 3.3.1 (+4)

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112603999215453&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112611555928169&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16692
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18139
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21481
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-815
• http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050905-1.txt
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:160
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0582.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14736
• http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv6.pdf

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