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.
Resolution
==========
All kdelibs users should upgrade to the latest version:
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 (at) gentoo (dot) org [email concealed] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
=======
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.
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
===========
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.
Resolution
==========
All kdelibs users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose kde-base/kdelibs
References
==========
[ 1 ] CAN-2005-0396
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0396
Availability
============
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?
=========
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 (at) gentoo (dot) org [email concealed] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
=======
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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