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Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : kdelibs vulnerability (USN-420-1)
low Nessus Plugin ID 28012
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
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.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
Plugin Details
Severity: Low
ID: 28012
File Name: ubuntu_USN-420-1.nasl
Version: 1.15
Type: Local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 11/10/2007
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 2.3
Percentile: 8.67
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 2.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, 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:kdelibs4c2-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4c2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4c2a, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release
Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2007
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-0537