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TITLE:
KDE KDM Local Denial of Service Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28104

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28104/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
KDE 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/219/

DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been reported in KDE, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The weakness is caused due to an error in KDM when processing certain
files, which can be exploited to cause KDM to e.g. consume large
amounts of memory or prevent users from logging in.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in an rPath advisory.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0268

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