Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE LINUX Security Team reported a local denial of service vulnerability in KDE's Desktop Communication Protocol (DCOP) daemon better known as dcopserver. A local user can lock up the dcopserver of arbitrary other users on the same machine by stalling the DCOP authentication process. Although it is not possible to by pass the authentication process this way, it can cause a significant reduction in desktop functionality for the affected users.
This issue should also affect RHEL3. I'm not sure if this affects RHEL2.1 (than can you take a look).
Created attachment 111567 [details] KDE 3.1.5 patch
Created attachment 111568 [details] KDE 3.3 patch
yes, it effects RHEL2.1 too.
it's fixed in kdelibs-3.1.3-6.10 (RHEL3), kdelibs-2.2.2-16 (RHEL2.1), kdelibs-3.3.1-3.5 (RHEL4)
reopening until this is pushed
is public, removing embargoed tag
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-325.html