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RHEL 4 : kdelibs (RHSA-2005:325)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 17625

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2005:325 advisory.

 The kdelibs package provides libraries for the K Desktop Environment.

 The International Domain Name (IDN) support in the Konqueror browser allowed remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names. Such domain names are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-0237 to this issue.

 Sebastian Krahmer discovered a flaw in dcopserver, the KDE Desktop Communication Protocol (DCOP) daemon. A local user could use this flaw to stall the DCOP authentication process, affecting any local desktop users and causing a reduction in their desktop functionality. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-0396 to this issue.

 A flaw in the dcopidlng script was discovered. The dcopidlng script would create temporary files with predictable filenames which could allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-0365 to this issue.

 Users of KDE should upgrade to these erratum packages which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL kdelibs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2005:325.

See Also

http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050316-1.txt

http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050316-2.txt

http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050316-3.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?93ada675

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=147405

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=148822

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=150090

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:325

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 17625

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-325.nasl

Version: 1.29

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/25/2005

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2005-0237

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2005-0365

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs-devel

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/23/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0237, CVE-2005-0365, CVE-2005-0396

RHSA: 2005:325