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Gentoo GLSA-200503-22: Normal Severity KDE Local DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey March 19, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
KDE encounters localized Denial of Service vulnerability; Gentoo community must promptly update kdelibs to safeguard against possible threats.
KDE is vulnerable to a local Denial of Service attack.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200503-22 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: KDE: Local Denial of Service Date: March 19, 2005 Bugs: #83814 ID: 200503-22

Synopsis ======= KDE is vulnerable to a local Denial of Service attack.
Background ========= 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 ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 kde-base/kdelibs < 3.3.2-r7 >= 3.3.2-r7 *>= 3.2.3-r8
========== Sebastian Krahmer discovered that it is possible to stall the dcopserver of other users.
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