USN-420-1Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | KDE library vulnerability |
| Informations | |||
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| Name | USN-420-1 | First vendor Publication | 2007-02-06 |
| Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2007-02-06 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | N/A |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | |||
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| Cvss Base Score | 2.6 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | High |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 4.9 | Authentification | None Required |
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Detail
A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.10 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 6.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 5.10: kdelibs4c2 4:3.4.3-0ubuntu2.2 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.2-0ubuntu18.2 Ubuntu 6.10: kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5-0ubuntu3.1 After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Jose Avila III and Robert Tasarz discovered that the KDE HTML library did not correctly parse HTML comments inside the "title" tag. By tricking a Konqueror user into visiting a malicious website, an attacker could bypass cross-site scripting protections. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-420-1 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| id | Name |
|---|---|
| CWE-79 | Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10244 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10244 | ||
| Title: | The KDE HTML library (kdelibs), as used by Konqueror 3.5.5, does not properly parse HTML comments, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS protection schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within a comment in a title tag, a related issue to CVE-2007-0478. | ||
| Description: | The KDE HTML library (kdelibs), as used by Konqueror 3.5.5, does not properly parse HTML comments, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS protection schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within a comment in a title tag, a related issue to CVE-2007-0478. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability |
| Reference(s): | CVE-2007-0537 |
Version: | 5 |
| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 CentOS Linux 4 Oracle Linux 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 CentOS Linux 5 Oracle Linux 5 |
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
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| Application | 1 |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| id | Description |
|---|---|
| 32975 | KDE Konqueror KDE HTML library (kdelibs) HTML Parsing XSS |
(Low)
