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Debian 4.0 Lenny: DSA-1867-1 Moderate: Kdelibs Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey August 19, 2009
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Enhance kdelibs on Debian to mitigate security risks associated with remote code execution vulnerabilities.
Several security issues have been discovered in kdelibs, core libraries from the official KDE release

Summary

CVE-2009-1690

It was discovered that there is a use-after-free flaw in handling
certain DOM event handlers. This could lead to the execution of
arbitrary code, when visiting a malicious website.

CVE-2009-1698

It was discovered that there could be an uninitialised pointer when
handling a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) attr function call. This could
lead to the execution of arbitrary code, when visiting a malicious
website.

CVE-2009-1687

It was discovered that the JavaScript garbage collector does not handle
allocation failures properly, which could lead to the execution of
arbitrary code when visiting a malicious website.


For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny2.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed
in version 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch2.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), these problems will be fixed soon.


We recommend that you upgrade your kdelibs packages.


Upgrade instructions
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