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Screen savers in KDE beta 3 allows local users to...

Low severity Unreviewed Published Apr 30, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 30, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Screen savers in KDE beta 3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .kss.pid file.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 6, 1998
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 30, 2022
Last updated Jan 30, 2023

Severity

Low

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(31st percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-1999-1269

GHSA ID

GHSA-6234-3hmx-58p6

Source code

No known source code

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