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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200503-22
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Normal
Title: KDE: Local Denial of Service
Date: March 19, 2005
Bugs: #83814
ID: 200503-22
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Synopsis
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KDE is vulnerable to a local Denial of Service attack.
Background
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KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and
Unix-like Operating Systems. DCOP is KDE's simple IPC/RPC mechanism.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 kde-base/kdelibs < 3.3.2-r7 >= 3.3.2-r7
*>= 3.2.3-r8
Description
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Sebastian Krahmer discovered that it is possible to stall the
dcopserver of other users.
Impact
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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
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There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
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All kdelibs users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose kde-base/kdelibs
References
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[ 1 ] CAN-2005-0396
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0396
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-22.xml
Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@xxxxxxxxxx or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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