Submitted by MarcDeslauriers on Mon, 2009-08-24 19:46
Referenced CVEs:
CVE-2009-0945, CVE-2009-1687, CVE-2009-1690, CVE-2009-1698
Description:
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-822-1 August 24, 2009
kde4libs, kdelibs vulnerabilities
CVE-2009-0945, CVE-2009-1687, CVE-2009-1690, CVE-2009-1698
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 9.04
This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.
The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy1.2
Ubuntu 8.10:
kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.10-0ubuntu6.1
kdelibs5 4:4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid1.2
Ubuntu 9.04:
kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-1ubuntu8.1
kdelibs5 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu5.1
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect
the necessary changes.
Details follow:
It was discovered that KDE-Libs did not properly handle certain malformed
SVG images. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted SVG
image, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 9.04. (CVE-2009-0945)
It was discovered that the KDE JavaScript garbage collector did not
properly handle memory allocation failures. If a user were tricked into
viewing a malicious website, an attacker could cause a denial of service or
possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
the program. (CVE-2009-1687)
It was discovered that KDE-Libs did not properly handle HTML content in the
head element. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, an
attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2009-1690)
It was discovered that KDE-Libs did not properly handle the Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS) attr function call. If a user were tricked into viewing a
malicious website, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2009-1698)


