gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200503-22.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200503-22">
  <title>KDE: Local Denial of Service</title>
  <synopsis>
    KDE is vulnerable to a local Denial of Service attack.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">kde, dcopserver</product>
  <announced>March 19, 2005</announced>
  <revised>March 19, 2005: 01</revised>
  <bug>83814</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="kde-base/kdelibs" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.3.2-r7</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">3.2.3-r8</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.3.2-r7</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and
    Unix-like Operating Systems. DCOP is KDE's simple IPC/RPC mechanism.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Sebastian Krahmer discovered that it is possible to stall the
    dcopserver of other users.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    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.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All kdelibs users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose kde-base/kdelibs</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0396">CAN-2005-0396</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:00:10 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 19 Mar 2005 07:23:43 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>