CVE-2005-0396 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the DCOP daemon (dcopserver) within KDE versions prior to 3.4. A local attacker can exploit this by stalling the DCOP authentication process, leading to resource consumption and system unavailability. With a CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability is considered low severity, requiring local access and resulting only in a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 3.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kde:dcopserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 3.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kde:desktop_communication_protocol_daemon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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