Ubuntu Security Notice USN-245-1
20th January, 2006
kdelibs vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 5.10
- Ubuntu 5.04
Details
Maksim Orlovich discovered that kjs, the Javascript interpreter engine
used by Konqueror and other parts of KDE, did not sufficiently verify
the validity of UTF-8 encoded URIs. Specially crafted URIs could
trigger a buffer overflow. By tricking an user into visiting a
web site with malicious JavaScript code, a remote attacker could
exploit this to execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 5.10:
- kdelibs4c2
- Ubuntu 5.04:
- kdelibs4c2
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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