Fedora: kdelibs Update Notification, Critical: Session Fixation Threat

Libraries for the K Desktop Environment:

KDE Libraries included: kdecore (KDE core library), kdeui (user interface),

kfm (file manager), khtmlw (HTML widget), kio (Input/Output, networking),

kspell (spelling checker), jscript (javascript), kab (addressbook),

kimgio (image manipulation).

Andrew Tuitt reported that versions of KDE up to and including 3.2.3 create temporary directories with predictable names. A local attacker could prevent KDE applications from functioning correctly, or overwrite files owned by other users by creating malicious symlinks. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project has assigned the name CAN-2004-0689 to this issue.

WESTPOINT internet reconnaissance services has discovered that the KDE web browser Konqueror allows websites to set cookies for certain country specific secondary top level domains. An attacker within one of the affected domains could construct a cookie which would be sent to all other websites within the domain leading to a session fixation attack. This issue does not affect popular domains such as .co.uk, .co.in, or .com. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project has assigned the name CAN-2004-0721 to this issue.

A frame injection spoofing vulnerability has been discovered in the Konqueror web browser. This iss...