| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to kdelibs
announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-8039.
Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional.
Vulnerability Insight:
Update Information:
This update fixes several security issues in KHTML (CVE-2009-1725,
CVE-2009-1690, CVE-2009-1687, CVE-2009-1698, CVE-2009-0945, CVE-2009-2537) which
may lead to a denial of service or potentially even arbitrary code execution.
In addition, libplasma was fixed to make Plasmaboard (a virtual keyboard applet)
work, and a bug in a Fedora patch which made builds of the SRPM on single-CPU
machines fail was fixed.
ChangeLog:
* Sun Jul 26 2009 Kevin Kofler - 4.2.4-6
- fix CVE-2009-1725 - crash, possible ACE in numeric character references
- fix CVE-2009-1690 - crash, possible ACE in KHTML ( use-after-free)
- fix CVE-2009-1687 - possible ACE in KJS (FIXME: still crashes?)
- fix CVE-2009-1698 - crash, possible ACE in CSS style attribute handling
- fix CVE-2009-0945 - NULL-pointer dereference in the SVGList interface impl
* Thu Jul 23 2009 Jaroslav Reznik - 4.2.4-5
- CVE-2009-2537 - select length DoS
- correct fixPopupForPlasmaboard.patch
* Wed Jul 8 2009 Kevin Kofler - 4.2.4-4
- fix CMake dependency in parallel_devel patch (#510259, CHIKAMA Masaki)
Solution:
Apply the appropriate updates.
This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update kdelibs' at the command line.
CVSS Score:
9.3
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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