CVE-2006-2449

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 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: 2006-06-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

KDE Display Manager (KDM) in KDE 3.2.0 up to 3.5.3 allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack related to the session type for login.

Affected products

Kde: 3.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.3, 3.3.1 (+8)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/20602
http://secunia.com/advisories/20660
http://secunia.com/advisories/20674
http://secunia.com/advisories/20702
http://secunia.com/advisories/20785
http://secunia.com/advisories/20869
http://secunia.com/advisories/20890
http://secunia.com/advisories/21662
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016297
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.444467
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1156
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-23.xml

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