N/A - USN-872-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	KDE 4 Runtime vulnerabilities

Informations
Name	USN-872-1	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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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score	Not Defined	Attack Range	Not Defined
Cvss Impact Score	Not Defined	Attack Complexity	Not Defined
Cvss Expoit Score	Not Defined	Authentication	Not Defined
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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:
kdebase-runtime 4:4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid1.2

Ubuntu 9.04:
kdebase-runtime 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 9.10:
kdebase-runtime 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu4.1

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

Details follow:

It was discovered that the KIO subsystem of KDE did not properly perform input validation when processing help:// URIs. If a user or KIO application processed a crafted help:// URI, an attacker could trigger JavaScript execution or access files via directory traversal.