<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200601-11"> <title>KDE kjs: URI heap overflow vulnerability</title> <synopsis> KDE fails to properly validate URIs when handling javascript, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">KDE</product> <announced>2006-01-22</announced> <revised count="01">2006-01-22</revised> <bug>118550</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="kde-base/kdelibs" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">3.4.3-r1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">3.4.3-r1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. kjs is the javascript interpreter used in Konqueror and other parts of KDE. </p> </background> <description> <p> Maksim Orlovich discovered an incorrect bounds check in kjs when handling URIs. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> By enticing a user to load a specially crafted webpage containing malicious javascript, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running kjs. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All kdelibs users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose kde-base/kdelibs-3.4.3-r1</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0019">CVE-2006-0019</uri> <uri link="https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060119-1.txt">KDE Security Advisory: kjs encodeuri/decodeuri heap overflow vulnerability</uri> </references> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-01-20T06:30:56Z"> jaervosz </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-01-21T13:57:57Z"> DerCorny </metadata> </glsa>