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Fedora 13 : kdelibs-4.5.5-2.fc13 (2011-5183)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 53497

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The Konqueror web browser is vulnerable to HTML injection into the error pages that are displayed when it fails to fetch the requested URL. This could allow an arbitrary website to be spoofed.

The new package fixes this security issue. For more infos please take a look at http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20110411-1.txt

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

Solution

Update the affected kdelibs package.

See Also

https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20110411-1.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?b1b8e2bb

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 53497

File Name: fedora_2011-5183.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/20/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kdelibs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2011

Reference Information

BID: 47304

FEDORA: 2011-5183