Vulnerability in Kde Beta 3

CVE-1999-1269

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

EPSS: 0.003 (22.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Kde Kde_beta_3 — versions initial
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Patch)