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78 lines
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="200408-23">
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<title>kdelibs: Cross-domain cookie injection vulnerability</title>
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<synopsis>
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The cookie manager component in kdelibs contains a vulnerability allowing
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an attacker to potentially gain access to a user's session on a legitimate
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web server.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">kdelibs</product>
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<announced>2004-08-24</announced>
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<revised count="01">2004-08-24</revised>
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<bug>61389</bug>
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<access>remote</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="kde-base/kdelibs" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">3.2.3-r2</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="le">3.2.3-r1</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>
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KDE is a widely-used desktop environment based on the Qt toolkit.
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kcookiejar in kdelibs is responsible for storing and managing HTTP cookies.
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Konqueror uses kcookiejar for storing and managing cookies.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>
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kcookiejar contains a vulnerability which may allow a malicious website to
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set cookies for other websites under the same second-level domain.
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</p>
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<p>
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This vulnerability applies to country-specific secondary top level domains
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that use more than 2 characters in the secondary part of the domain name,
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and that use a secondary part other than com, net, mil, org, gov, edu or
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int. However, certain popular domains, such as co.uk, are not affected.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="low">
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<p>
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Users visiting a malicious website using the Konqueror browser may have a
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session cookie set for them by that site. Later, when the user visits
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another website under the same domain, the attacker's session cookie will
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be used instead of the cookie issued by the legitimate site. Depending on
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the design of the legitimate site, this may allow an attacker to gain
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access to the user's session. For further explanation on this type of
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attack, see the paper titled "Session Fixation Vulnerability in
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Web-based Applications" (reference 2).
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>
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There is no known workaround at this time. All users are encouraged to
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upgrade to the latest available version of kdelibs.
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</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>
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All kdelibs users should upgrade to the latest version:
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</p>
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<code>
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# emerge sync
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# emerge -pv ">=kde-base/kdelibs-3.2.3-r2"
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# emerge ">=kde-base/kdelibs-3.2.3-r2"</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20040823-1.txt">KDE Advisory</uri>
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<uri link="http://www.acros.si/papers/session_fixation.pdf">Session Fixation Vulnerability in Web-based Applications</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2004-08-23T20:45:47Z">
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jaervosz
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2004-08-24T19:26:35Z">
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condordes
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</metadata>
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</glsa>
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