Executive Summary

Summary
Title KDE 4 vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-871-2 First vendor Publication 2009-12-11
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2009-12-11
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10

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 8.10:
kdelibs5 4:4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid1.5

Ubuntu 9.04:
kdelibs5 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu5.4

Ubuntu 9.10:
kdelibs5 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu7.2

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

USN-871-1 fixed vulnerabilities in KDE. This update provides the corresponding updates for KDE 4.

This update also fixes a directory traversal flaw in KDE when processing help:// URLs. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.10.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that the KDE libraries could use KHTML to process an
unknown MIME type. If a user or application linked against kdelibs were
tricked into opening a crafted file, an attacker could potentially trigger
XMLHTTPRequests to remote sites.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-871-2

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