CVE-2005-0078: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The KDE screen saver in KDE before 3.0.5 does not properly check the return value from a certain function call, which allows attackers with physical access to cause a crash and access the desktop session.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 3.0 only
• Kde Kde: version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 2.1 only; version 3.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 3.0 only
• Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation: version 2.1 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.