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[GLSA-200503-22] KDE: Local Denial of Service

Family:

Gentoo Local Security Checks

Category:

infos

Copyright:

(C) 2005 Michel Arboi

Summary:

KDE: Local Denial of Service

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $

Cve_id:

CAN-2005-0396

Bugtraq_id:

-

Xrefs:

GLSA:200503-22

Description:

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200503-22
(KDE: Local Denial of Service)


Sebastian Krahmer discovered that it is possible to stall the
dcopserver of other users.

Impact

An attacker could exploit this to cause a local Denial of Service
by stalling the dcopserver in the authentication process. As a result
all desktop functionality relying on DCOP will cease to function.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0396


Solution:
All kdelibs users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose kde-base/kdelibs


Risk factor : Medium