gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200601-11.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200601-11">
  <title>KDE kjs: URI heap overflow vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    KDE fails to properly validate URIs when handling javascript, potentially
    resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">KDE</product>
  <announced>2006-01-22</announced>
  <revised count="01">2006-01-22</revised>
  <bug>118550</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="kde-base/kdelibs" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.4.3-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.4.3-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and
    Unix-like Operating Systems. kjs is the javascript interpreter used in
    Konqueror and other parts of KDE.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Maksim Orlovich discovered an incorrect bounds check in kjs when
    handling URIs.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    By enticing a user to load a specially crafted webpage containing
    malicious javascript, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the
    rights of the user running kjs.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All kdelibs users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose kde-base/kdelibs-3.4.3-r1</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0019">CVE-2006-0019</uri>
    <uri link="https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060119-1.txt">KDE Security Advisory: kjs encodeuri/decodeuri heap overflow vulnerability</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-01-20T06:30:56Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-01-21T13:57:57Z">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
</glsa>