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CVE-2006-2933

• 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: 2006-07-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

kdesktop_lock in kdebase before 3.1.3-5.11 for KDE in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 does not properly terminate, which can prevent the screensaver from activating or prevent users from manually locking the desktop.

Affected products

• Kde: 3.1.2, 3.1.3
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 3.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 3.0

References

• http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177755
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21203
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016571
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0576.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19152
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10535
• http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177755
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21203
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016571
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0576.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19152
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10535

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