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Ubuntu: 872-1 Critical KIO Runtime Input Validation Threat

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Calendar Grey December 11, 2009
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The KIO subsystem of KDE on Ubuntu contained a vulnerability that permitted the execution of JavaScript via incorrectly structured help requests.
It was discovered that the KIO subsystem of KDE did not properly performinput validation when processing help:// URIs

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security advisory directory traversal KDE input validation ubuntu JavaScript execution

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kdebase-runtime vulnerabilities

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security advisory directory traversal KDE input validation ubuntu JavaScript execution

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