The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0464 advisory.

    The kdelibs packages provide libraries for the K Desktop Environment (KDE).

    A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the way KHTML, the HTML     layout engine used by KDE applications such as the Konqueror web browser,     displayed certain error pages. A remote attacker could use this flaw to     perform a cross-site scripting attack against victims by tricking them into     visiting a specially-crafted URL. (CVE-2011-1168)

    A flaw was found in the way kdelibs checked the user specified hostname     against the name in the server's SSL certificate. A man-in-the-middle     attacker could use this flaw to trick an application using kdelibs into     mistakenly accepting a certificate as if it was valid for the host, if that     certificate was issued for an IP address to which the user specified     hostname was resolved to. (CVE-2011-1094)

    Note: As part of the fix for CVE-2011-1094, this update also introduces     stricter handling for wildcards used in servers' SSL certificates.

    Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported     patches to correct these issues. The desktop must be restarted (log out,     then log back in) for this update to take effect.

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.

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RHEL 6 : kdelibs (RHSA-2011:0464)

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