RHEL 2.1 : kdelibs (RHSA-2003:236)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 12409

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This erratum provides updated KDE packages that resolve a security issue in Konquerer.

KDE is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System.
Konqueror is the file manager for the K Desktop Environment.

George Staikos reported that Konqueror may inadvertently send authentication credentials to websites other than the intended website in clear text via the HTTP-referer header. This can occur when authentication credentials are passed as part of a URL in the form http://user:password@host/

Users of Konqueror are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages, which contain a backported security patch correcting this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 12409

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2003-236.nasl

Version: 1.26

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/6/2004

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs-sound, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs-sound-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:arts, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/30/2003

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0459

RHSA: 2003:236

Detections

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