Scientific Linux: 2009-11-24 Critical: kdelibs Remote Code Execution

Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:21:25 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
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From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Critical: kdelibs on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Critical: kdelibs security update
Issue date:	2009-11-24
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-0689

CVE-2009-0689 kdelibs remote array overrun

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the kdelibs string to floating point
conversion routines. A web page containing malicious JavaScript could
crash Konqueror or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user running Konqueror. (CVE-2009-0689)

The desktop must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this
update to take effect.

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
kdelibs-3.3.1-17.el4_8.1.src.rpm
 i386:
kdelibs-3.3.1-17.el4_8.1.i386.rpm
kdelibs-devel-3.3.1-17.el4_8.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
kdelibs-3.3.1-17.el4_8.1.i386.rpm
kdelibs-3.3.1-17.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-devel-3.3.1-17.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
kdelibs-3.5.4-25.el5_4.1.src.rpm
 i386:
kdelibs-3.5.4-25.el5_4.1.i386.rpm
kdelibs-apidocs-3.5.4-25.el5_4.1.i386.rpm
kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-25.el5_4.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
kdelibs-3.5.4-25.el5_4.1.i386.rpm
kdelibs-3.5.4-25.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-apidocs-3.5.4-25.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-25.el5_4.1.i386.rpm
kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-25.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson
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