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USN-245-1: KDE library vulnerability

20 January 2006

KDE library vulnerability

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Details

Maksim Orlovich discovered that kjs, the Javascript interpreter engine
used by Konqueror and other parts of KDE, did not sufficiently verify
the validity of UTF-8 encoded URIs. Specially crafted URIs could
trigger a buffer overflow. By tricking an user into visiting a
web site with malicious JavaScript code, a remote attacker could
exploit this to execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.10
  • kdelibs4c2 -
Ubuntu 5.04
  • kdelibs4c2 -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References