CVE-2005-0205 (GCVE-0-2005-0205)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2005-02-28 05:00
Modified
2024-08-07 21:05
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
KPPP 2.1.2 in KDE 3.1.5 and earlier, when setuid root without certain wrappers, does not properly close a privileged file descriptor for a domain socket, which allows local users to read and write to /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf and gain control over DNS name resolution by opening a number of file descriptors before executing kppp.
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