KDE: Local Denial of service

KDE: Local Denial of service KDE is vulnerable to a local Denial of Service attack. kde, dcopserver 2005-03-19 2005-03-19 83814 local 3.3.2-r7 3.2.3-r8 3.3.2-r7

KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. DCOP is KDE's simple IPC/RPC mechanism.

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that it is possible to stall the dcopserver of other users.

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.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All kdelibs users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose kde-base/kdelibs

CAN-2005-0396 jaervosz jaervosz