Ubuntu 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : kde4libs vulnerabilities (USN-1110-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55068

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that KDE KSSL did not properly verify X.509 certificates when the certificate was issued for an IP address. An attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications.
(CVE-2011-1094)

Tim Brown discovered that KDE KHTML did not properly escape URLs from externally generated error pages. An attacker could exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data (such as passwords), within the same domain. (CVE-2011-1168).

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Solution

Update the affected kdelibs5, libkhtml5 and / or libkio5 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55068

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1110-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 6/13/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkhtml5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkio5, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1094, CVE-2011-1168

BID: 46789, 47304

USN: 1110-1

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