CVE-2005-0396

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Desktop Communication Protocol (DCOP) daemon, aka dcopserver, in KDE before 3.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (dcopserver consumption) by "stalling the DCOP authentication process."

Affected products

KDE Dcopserver: through 3.3
KDE Desktop Communication Protocol Daemon: through 3.3

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111099766716483&w=2
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-22.xml
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050316-1.txt
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:058
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-307.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-325.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427976/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12820
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10432
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111099766716483&w=2
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-22.xml
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050316-1.txt

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