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Debian DSA-948-1 : kdelibs - buffer overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 22814

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Maksim Orlovich discovered that the kjs JavaScript interpreter, used in the Konqueror web browser and in other parts of KDE, performs insufficient bounds checking when parsing UTF-8 encoded Uniform Resource Identifiers, which may lead to a heap based buffer overflow and the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the kdelibs package.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.2-6.4

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-948

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 22814

File Name: debian_DSA-948.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 1/20/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/19/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0019

DSA: 948