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Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 : kdelibs vulnerability (USN-245-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20792

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Maksim Orlovich discovered that kjs, the JavaScript interpreter engine used by Konqueror and other parts of KDE, did not sufficiently verify the validity of UTF-8 encoded URIs. Specially crafted URIs could trigger a buffer overflow. By tricking an user into visiting a website with malicious JavaScript code, a remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20792

File Name: ubuntu_USN-245-1.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/21/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4c2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4c2-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 1/20/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/19/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0019

USN: 245-1