Visual truncation vulnerability in KDE Konqueror 3.5.7 allows remote attackers to spoof the URL address bar via an http URI with a large amount of whitespace in the user/password portion.

It was discovered that Konqueror could be tricked into displaying incorrect URLs. Remote attackers could exploit this to increase their chances of tricking a user into visiting a phishing URL, which could lead to credential theft.

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.

- Tue Oct 2 2007 Than Ngo <than at redhat.com> -     6:3.5.7-13.1

    - rh#299731, CVE-2007-4569

    - Wed Aug 15 2007 Rex Dieter       <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> 6:3.5.7-13

    - CVE-2007-3820, CVE-2007-4224, CVE-2007-4225

    - License: GPLv2

    - Requires: kdelibs3(-devel)

    - Fri Jul 20 2007 Rex Dieter       <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> - 6:3.5.7-12

    - fix unpackaged files

    - Fri Jul 20 2007 Rex Dieter       <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> - 6:3.5.7-9

    - %ifnarch s390 s390x: BR: lm_sensors

    - Thu Jul 19 2007 Rex Dieter       <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> - 6:3.5.7-7

    - omit dirs owned by kde-filesystem

    - Mon Jul 2 2007 Than Ngo <than at redhat.com> -       6:3.5.7-6

    - fix bz#244906

    - Wed Jun 20 2007 Rex Dieter       <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> - 6:3.5.7-5

    - Provides: kdebase3(-devel)

    - Wed Jun 20 2007 Rex Dieter       <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> - 6:3.5.7-4

    - -devel: Requires: %name...

    - portability++

    - Fri Jun 15 2007 Rex Dieter       <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> - 6:3.5.7-3

    - specfile portability

    - Mon Jun 11 2007 Rex Dieter       <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> - 6:3.5.7-2

    - fix BR: kdelibs-devel

    - cleanup Req's wrt kde-settings

    - Mon Jun 11 2007 Than Ngo <than at redhat.com> -       6:3.5.7-1.fc7.1

    - remove kdebase-3.4.2-npapi-64bit-fixes.patch, it's       included in new upstream

  - Wed Jun 6 2007 Than Ngo <than at redhat.com> -     6:3.5.7-0.1

    - 3.5.7

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.

This update primarily addresses security issues around URL spoofing.

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.

This update primarily addresses problems with URL spoofing and consolekit/session permissions.

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.

The remote Fedora Core host is missing one or more security updates :

kdebase-3.5.7-1.fc6 :

  - Tue Oct 2 2007 Than Ngo <than at redhat.com> -     6:3.5.7-1.fc6

    - CVE-2007-4224, CVE-2007-4225, CVE-2007-3820

    - rh#299741, CVE-2007-4569

    - Mon Jul 2 2007 Than Ngo <than at redhat.com> -       6:3.5.7-0.fc6.2

    - fix #244906

kdelibs-3.5.7-1.fc6 :

  - Tue Oct 2 2007 Than Ngo <than at redhat.com> -     6:3.5.7-1.fc6

    - CVE-2007-4224, CVE-2007-3820 konqueror address bar       spoofing

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.

New kdebase packages are available for Slackware 12.0 to fix security issues. A long URL padded with spaces could be used to display a false URL in Konqueror's addressbar, and KDM when used with no-password login could be tricked into logging a different user in without a password. This is not the way KDM is configured in Slackware by default, somewhat mitigating the impact of this issue.

The KDE development team reports :

The Konqueror address bar is vulnerable to spoofing attacks that are based on embedding white spaces in the url. In addition the address bar could be tricked to show an URL which it is intending to visit for a short amount of time instead of the current URL.

konqueror/konq_combo.cc in Konqueror 3.5.7 allows remote attackers to spoof the data: URI scheme in the address bar via a long URI with trailing whitespace, which prevents the beginning of the URI from being displayed. (CVE-2007-3820)

KDE Konqueror 3.5.7 allows remote attackers to spoof the URL address bar by calling setInterval with a small interval and changing the window.location property. (CVE-2007-4224)

Visual truncation vulnerability in KDE Konqueror 3.5.7 allows remote attackers to spoof the URL address bar via an http URI with a large amount of whitespace in the user/password portion. (CVE-2007-4225)

Updated packages fix these issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
28106	Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : kdebase, kdelibs vulnerabilities (USN-502-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
27769	Fedora 7 : kdebase-3.5.7-13.1.fc7 (2007-2361)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
27729	Fedora 7 : kdebase-3.5.7-13.fc7 (2007-1700)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
27728	Fedora 7 : kdelibs-3.5.7-20.fc7 (2007-1699)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
26935	Fedora Core 6 : kdebase-3.5.7-1.fc6 / kdelibs-3.5.7-1.fc6 (2007-716)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
26113	Slackware 12.0 : kdebase, kdelibs (SSA:2007-264-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	medium
26085	FreeBSD : konquerer -- address bar spoofing (14ad2a28-66d2-11dc-b25f-02e0185f8d72)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium
26008	Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : konqueror (MDKSA-2007:176)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2007-4225

high

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium

medium

medium

medium

medium

medium