CVE-2005-0205: Bernd Wuebben Kppp

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

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.

Affected products

• Bernd Wuebben Kppp: version 2.1.2 only
• Kde Kde: version 3.1 only; version 3.1.1 only; version 3.1.2 only; version 3.1.3 only; version 3.1.4 only; version 3.1.5 only

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