KGet 2.4.2 in KDE SC 4.0.0 through 4.4.3 does not properly request download confirmation from the user, which makes it easier for remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted metalink file.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-08 (Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2010)

    Vulnerabilities have been discovered in the packages listed below.
      Please review the CVE identifiers in the Reference section for details.
      Insight       Perl Tk Module       Source-Navigator       Tk       Partimage       Mlmmj       acl       Xinit       gzip       ncompress       liblzw       splashutils       GNU M4       KDE Display Manager       GTK+       KGet       dvipng       Beanstalk       Policy Mount       pam_krb5       GNU gv       LFTP       Uzbl       Slim       Bitdefender Console       iputils       DVBStreamer   Impact :

    A context-dependent attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges,       execute arbitrary code, cause Denial of Service, obtain sensitive       information, or otherwise bypass security restrictions.
  Workaround :

    There are no known workarounds at this time.

Includes fixes for a security issue in KGet, and login issue for kopete icq plugin ( see http://bugs.kde.org/257008 )

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 set updates the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) to KDE SC 4.4.3, which has a number of improvements: * Numerous fixes in Konsole, KDE's terminal emulator, among them two possible crashers in session management * Flash plugin support in KHTML has been enhanced to work with newest Youtube skins * Case-sensitivity in renaming fixes in KIO, KDE's network-transparent I/O library

  - Hiding the mouse cursor in some special cases in     presentation mode and two possible crashers have been     fixed and more bugfixes and translation updates. See     http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.4.3.php for more     information. In addition, the security issues     CVE-2010-1000 and CVE-2010-1511 (improper sanitization     of metalink attribute for downloading files) in KGet     have been fixed, and Kppp now prompts for the root     password instead of failing with a cryptic error when     run as a regular user.

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Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and fixed in kget (kdenetwork4) :

Directory traversal vulnerability in KGet in KDE SC 4.0.0 through 4.4.3 allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in the name attribute of a file element in a metalink file (CVE-2010-1000).

KGet 2.4.2 in KDE SC 4.0.0 through 4.4.3 does not properly request download confirmation from the user, which makes it easier for remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted metalink file (CVE-2010-1511).

Packages for 2009.0 are provided due to the Extended Maintenance Program.

The corrected packages solves these problems.

This version of Konqueror shipped with an application called 'Kget' which is prone to a security-bypass flaw as well as a directory-traversal flaw.  An attacker would need to be able to entice a user into browsing to a malicious website.  Successful exploitation would result in the remote site gaining partial access to the filesystem on the client machine. 

It was discovered that KGet did not properly perform input validation when processing metalink files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted metalink file, a remote attacker could overwrite files via directory traversal, which could eventually lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2010-1000)

It was discovered that KGet would not always wait for user confirmation when downloading metalink files. If a user selected a file to download but did not confirm or cancel the download, KGet would proceed with the download, overwriting any file with the same name. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2010-1511).

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
79961	GLSA-201412-08 : Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2010	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
50847	Fedora 12 : kdenetwork-4.4.5-4.fc12 (2010-18029)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
47504	Fedora 13 : kde-l10n-4.4.3-1.fc13 / kdeaccessibility-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 / kdeadmin-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 / etc (2010-8577)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
47499	Fedora 11 : kde-l10n-4.4.3-1.fc11 / kdeaccessibility-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 / kdeadmin-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 / etc (2010-8547)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
47498	Fedora 12 : kde-l10n-4.4.3-1.fc12 / kdeaccessibility-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 / kdeadmin-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 / etc (2010-8544)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
46664	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kdenetwork4 (MDVSA-2010:098)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium
5539	Konqueror < 4.4.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients	medium
46336	Ubuntu 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : kdenetwork vulnerabilities (USN-938-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2010-1511

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Tenable Plugins

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