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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202101-16">
  <title>KDE Connect: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in KDE Connect could lead to a Denial of Service
    condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">kde-connect</product>
  <announced>2021-01-22</announced>
  <revised count="1">2021-01-22</revised>
  <bug>746401</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="kde-misc/kdeconnect" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">20.04.3-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">20.04.3-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>KDE Connect is a project that enables all your devices to communicate
      with each other.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple issues causing excessive resource consumption were found in KDE
      Connect.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>An attacker could cause a possible Denial of Service condition.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All KDE Connect users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=kde-misc/kdeconnect-20.04.3-r1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26164">CVE-2020-26164</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2021-01-22T00:28:04Z">sam_c</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2021-01-22T16:16:11Z">sam_c</metadata>
</glsa>