Use-after-free vulnerability in khtml/rendering/render_replaced.cpp in Konqueror in KDE 4.7.3, when the context menu is shown, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by accessing an iframe when it is being updated.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201406-31 (Konqueror: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Konqueror. Please       review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted web       site using Konqueror, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary       code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition   Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

This update of kdelibs fixed various memory corruption vulnerabilities.

On openSUSE 12.1 a akregator crash on closing tab was fixed.

This kdelibs4 update fixes several security issues related to khtml/konqueror.

  - Fix security issues and NULL pointer references in     khtml/konqueror (bnc#787520) (CVE-2012-4512 /     CVE-2012-4513 / CVE-2012-4515)

- CVE-2012-4515

  - Fix crash when trying to reuse a frame with a null part

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.

- CVE-2012-4515

  - Fix crash when trying to reuse a frame with a null part

  - Cache solid device information in open/save dialog,     improving overall performance of the dialog (and making     the dialog usable again with slow devices because we     don't poll udisks2 that much)

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
76288	GLSA-201406-31 : Konqueror: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
74823	openSUSE Security Update : kdelibs4 (openSUSE-SU-2012:1581-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
70632	SuSE 11.2 / 11.3 Security Update : kdelibs4 (SAT Patch Numbers 8401 / 8402)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
62951	Fedora 16 : kdelibs-4.8.5-2.fc16 (2012-17388)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
62950	Fedora 17 : kdelibs-4.9.2-11.fc17 (2012-17385)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
62875	Fedora 18 : kdelibs-4.9.2-11.fc18 (2012-17234)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2012-4515

critical

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