Bug 483481 - Plasma can be DDOSed by applications sending too many notifications in short intervals
Summary: Plasma can be DDOSed by applications sending too many notifications in short ...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Notifications (show other bugs)
Version: master
Platform: Other Other
: NOR major
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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: 496605 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2024-03-13 20:04 UTC by Janet Blackquill
Modified: 2025-03-29 16:49 UTC (History)
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Description Janet Blackquill 2024-03-13 20:04:42 UTC
Title is somewhat self-explanatory. If an application sends too many notifications in a short interval, Plasma becomes unresponsive as it processes the notification deluge. While undoubtetly an application programming error, Plasma should be robust against this.

A simple while loop in bash can replicate this:
```
while true; do
  echo "^G" # this is BEL and it needs to be inputted as ctrl+v ctrl+g
done
```
and switch to another tab in Konsole. (notify-send will trigger the "too many same notifications" error.)

If you're curious, the application on my system that results in this is sbt.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-03-29 16:49:44 UTC
*** Bug 496605 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***