CVE-2006-2933 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-2933?

CVE-2006-2933 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Kde Kde, published on 27 Jul 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

kdesktop_lock in kdebase before 3.1.3-5.11 for KDE in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 does not properly terminate, which can prevent the screensaver from activating or prevent users from manually locking the desktop.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-2933?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Kde Kde, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop.

How do I fix CVE-2006-2933?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2006-2933 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-2933 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Kde Kde

• CVE-2005-0011 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2003-0690 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2008-1670 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2012-4512 Memory corruption in Konqueror High 8.8
• CVE-2006-0019 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.5

All Kde Kde vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-m7h3-c7v2-v2cm, RHSA-2006:0576.