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

low Nessus Plugin ID 17576

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

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.

Solution

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

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200503-22

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 17576

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200503-22.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Published: 3/20/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:kdelibs, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/19/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0396

GLSA: 200503-22