Debian DSA-1867-1 : kdelibs - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 44732

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several security issues have been discovered in kdelibs, core libraries from the official KDE release. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2009-1690 It was discovered that there is a use-after-free flaw in handling certain DOM event handlers. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary code, when visiting a malicious website.

- CVE-2009-1698 It was discovered that there could be an uninitialised pointer when handling a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) attr function call. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary code, when visiting a malicious website.

- CVE-2009-1687 It was discovered that the JavaScript garbage collector does not handle allocation failures properly, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when visiting a malicious website.

Solution

Upgrade the kdelibs packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch2.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny2.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534952

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1690

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1698

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1687

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1867

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 44732

File Name: debian_DSA-1867.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/19/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1687, CVE-2009-1690, CVE-2009-1698

BID: 35271, 35309, 35318

CWE: 399, 94

DSA: 1867