Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : kde4libs, kdelibs vulnerabilities (USN-822-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 40767

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that KDE-Libs did not properly handle certain malformed SVG images. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted SVG image, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 9.04.
(CVE-2009-0945)

It was discovered that the KDE JavaScript garbage collector did not properly handle memory allocation failures. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2009-1687)

It was discovered that KDE-Libs did not properly handle HTML content in the head element. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2009-1690)

It was discovered that KDE-Libs did not properly handle the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) attr function call. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2009-1698).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/822-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 40767

File Name: ubuntu_USN-822-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/25/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4c2a, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs5-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs5-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs5-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs5-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libplasma-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libplasma3, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/24/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0945, CVE-2009-1687, CVE-2009-1690, CVE-2009-1698

BID: 34924, 35271, 35309, 35318

CWE: 399, 94

USN: 822-1