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Scientific Linux: CVE-2009-1687 Critical: kdelibs Denial of Service Issue

Calendar Jun 26, 2009 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory buffer overflow critical kdelibs Denial of Service Scientific Linux
Critical: kdelibs security update 
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:40:25 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
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:	2009-06-25
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-1687 CVE-2009-1690 CVE-2009-1698

A flaw was found in the way the KDE CSS parser handled content for the
CSS "style" attribute. A remote attacker could create a
specially-crafted CSS equipped HTML page, which once visited by an
unsuspecting user, could cause a denial of service (Konqueror crash) or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
running Konqueror. (CVE-2009-1698)

A flaw was found in the way the KDE HTML parser handled content for the
HTML "head" element. A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted
HTML page, which once visited by an unsuspecting user, could cause a
denial of service (Konqueror crash) or, potentially, execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user running Konqueror. (CVE-2009-1690)

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was
found in the way the KDE JavaScript garbage collector handled memory
allocation requests. A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted
HTML page, which once visited by an unsuspecting user, could cause a
denial of service (Konqueror crash) or, potentially, execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user running Konqueror. (CVE-2009-1687)

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

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
kdelibs-3.3.1-14.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
kdelibs-3.3.1-14.el4.i386.rpm
kdelibs-devel-3.3.1-14.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
kdelibs-3.3.1-14.el4.i386.rpm
kdelibs-3.3.1-14.el4.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-devel-3.3.1-14.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
kdelibs-3.5.4-22.el5_3.src.rpm
 i386:
kdelibs-3.5.4-22.el5_3.i386.rpm
kdelibs-apidocs-3.5.4-22.el5_3.i386.rpm
kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-22.el5_3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
kdelibs-3.5.4-22.el5_3.i386.rpm
kdelibs-3.5.4-22.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-apidocs-3.5.4-22.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-22.el5_3.i386.rpm
kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-22.el5_3.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson