KDE KSSL in kdelibs 3.5.4, 4.2.4, and 4.3 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Subject Alternative Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - kdelibs: kssl incorrect verification of SSL certificate with NUL in subjectAltName (CVE-2009-2702)

  - kf5-kio, kdelibs: Information Leak when accessing https when using a malicious PAC file (CVE-2017-6410)

  - kioslave/http/http.cpp in KIO in kdelibs 4.10.3 and earlier allows attackers to discover credentials via a     crafted request that triggers an internal server error, which includes the username and password in an     error message. (CVE-2013-2074)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

Multiple vulnerabilities was discovered and corrected in kdelibs4 :

KDE KSSL in kdelibs does not properly handle a \'\0\' (NUL) character in a domain name in the Subject Alternative Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408 (CVE-2009-2702).

An input sanitization flaw was found in the KSSL (KDE SSL Wrapper) API. An attacker could supply a specially crafted SSL certificate (for example, via a web page) to an application using KSSL, such as the Konqueror web browser, causing misleading information to be presented to the user, possibly tricking them into accepting the certificate as valid (CVE-2011-3365).

The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.

Multiple vulnerabilities was discovered and corrected in kdelibs4 :

KDE KSSL in kdelibs 3.5.4, 4.2.4, and 4.3 does not properly handle a \'\0\' (NUL) character in a domain name in the Subject Alternative Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408 (CVE-2009-2702).

KDE Konqueror allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large integer value for the length property of a Select object, a related issue to CVE-2009-1692 (CVE-2009-2537).

The gdtoa (aka new dtoa) implementation in gdtoa/misc.c in libc in FreeBSD 6.4 and 7.2, NetBSD 5.0, and OpenBSD 4.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large precision value in the format argument to a printf function, related to an array overrun. (CVE-2009-0689).

The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.

Multiple vulnerabilities was discovered and corrected in kdelibs4 :

KDE KSSL in kdelibs 3.5.4, 4.2.4, and 4.3 does not properly handle a '&#0;' (NUL) character in a domain name in the Subject Alternative Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408 (CVE-2009-2702).

The JavaScript garbage collector in WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1 does not properly handle allocation failures, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document that triggers write access to an offset of a NULL pointer.
(CVE-2009-1687).

WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0.2, KHTML in kdelibs in KDE, QtWebKit (aka Qt toolkit), and possibly other products does not properly handle numeric character references, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document (CVE-2009-1725).

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 4.0, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1, Google Chrome 1.0.154.53, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) by setting an unspecified property of an HTML tag that causes child elements to be freed and later accessed when an HTML error occurs, related to recursion in certain DOM event handlers. (CVE-2009-1690).

WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1 does not initialize a pointer during handling of a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) attr function call with a large numerical argument, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document (CVE-2009-1698).

KDE Konqueror allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large integer value for the length property of a Select object, a related issue to CVE-2009-1692 (CVE-2009-2537).

The gdtoa (aka new dtoa) implementation in gdtoa/misc.c in libc in FreeBSD 6.4 and 7.2, NetBSD 5.0, and OpenBSD 4.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large precision value in the format argument to a printf function, related to an array overrun. (CVE-2009-0689).

WebKit, as used in Safari before 3.2.3 and 4 Public Beta, on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5 before 10.5.7 and Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted SVGList object that triggers memory corruption (CVE-2009-0945).

The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.

Dan Kaminsky and Moxie Marlinspike discovered that kdelibs, core libraries from the official KDE release, does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Subject Alternative Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority.

Mandriva Linux 2008.0 was released with KDE version 3.5.7.

This update upgrades KDE in Mandriva Linux 2008.0 to version 3.5.10, which brings many bugfixes, overall improvements and many security fixes.

kdegraphics contains security fixes for CVE-2009-3603,3604,3605,3606,3608,3609,0146,0147,0165,0166,0799,0800,1 179,1180,1181,1182,1183

kdelibs contains security fixes for CVE-2009-0689,1687,1690,1698,2702,1725,2537

Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0 customers.

It was discovered that KDE did not properly handle certificates with NULL characters in the Subject Alternative Name field of X.509 certificates. An attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications.

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.

This updates KDE to 4.3.1, the latest upstream bugfix release. The main improvements are: * KDE 4.3 is now also available in Croatian. * A crash when editing toolbar setup has been fixed. * Support for transferring files through SSH using KIO::Fish has been fixed. * A number of bugs in KWin, KDE's window and compositing manager has been fixed. * A large number of bugs in KMail, KDE's email client are now gone. See http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.3.1.php for more information. In addition, this update: * fixes a potential security issue (CVE-2009-2702) with certificate validation in the KIO KSSL code. It is believed that the affected code is not actually used (the code in Qt, for which a security update was already issued, is) and thus the issue is only potential, but KSSL is being patched just in case, * splits PolicyKit-kde out of kdebase-workspace again to avoid forcing it onto GNOME-based setups, where PolicyKit-gnome is desired instead (#519654).

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 fixes CVE-2009-2702, a security issue where SSL certificates containing embedded NUL characters would falsely pass validation when they're actually invalid, for the KDE 3 compatibility version of kdelibs.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
198417	RHEL 5 : kdelibs (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
56687	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kdelibs4 (MDVSA-2011:162)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
48171	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kdelibs4 (MDVSA-2010:028)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
48170	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kdelibs4 (MDVSA-2010:027)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
44781	Debian DSA-1916-1 : kdelibs - insufficient input validation	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
43613	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kde (MDVSA-2009:346)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	critical
41013	Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : kde4libs, kdelibs vulnerability (USN-833-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
40991	Fedora 10 : akonadi-1.2.1-1.fc10 / kde-l10n-4.3.1-2.fc10 / kdeaccessibility-4.3.1-1.fc10 / etc (2009-9427)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
40990	Fedora 11 : akonadi-1.2.1-1.fc11 / kde-l10n-4.3.1-2.fc11 / kdeaccessibility-4.3.1-1.fc11 / etc (2009-9397)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
40896	Fedora 10 : kdelibs3-3.5.10-13.fc10.1 (2009-9400)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
40895	Fedora 11 : kdelibs3-3.5.10-13.fc11.1 (2009-9391)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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