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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.59102
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu USN-420-1 (kdelibs)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to kdelibs
announced via advisory USN-420-1.

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 5.10
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Ubuntu 6.10

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

Details follow:

Jose Avila III and Robert Tasarz discovered that the KDE HTML library
did not correctly parse HTML comments inside the title tag. By
tricking a Konqueror user into visiting a malicious website, an attacker
could bypass cross-site scripting protections.

Solution:
The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.10:
kdelibs4c2 4:3.4.3-0ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.2-0ubuntu18.2

Ubuntu 6.10:
kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5-0ubuntu3.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to
effect the necessary changes.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-420-1

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
2.6

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-0537
BugTraq ID: 22428
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22428
Bugtraq: 20070124 Re: Safari Improperly Parses HTML Documents & BlogSpot XSS vulnerability (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457924/100/0/threaded
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-10.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:031
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:157
http://osvdb.org/32975
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10244
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0909.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017591
http://secunia.com/advisories/23932
http://secunia.com/advisories/24013
http://secunia.com/advisories/24065
http://secunia.com/advisories/24442
http://secunia.com/advisories/24463
http://secunia.com/advisories/24889
http://secunia.com/advisories/27108
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:006 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_6_sr.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-420-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0505
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