Ubuntu Security Notice USN-871-1
10th December, 2009
kdelibs vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 9.10
- Ubuntu 9.04
- Ubuntu 8.10
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Software description
- kdelibs
Details
A buffer overflow was found in the KDE libraries when converting a string
to a floating point number. If a user or application linked against kdelibs
were tricked into processing crafted input, an attacker could cause a
denial of service (via application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2009-0689)
It was discovered that the KDE libraries could use KHTML to process an
unknown MIME type. If a user or application linked against kdelibs were
tricked into opening a crafted file, an attacker could potentially trigger
XMLHTTPRequests to remote sites.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 9.10:
- kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu7.2
- Ubuntu 9.04:
- kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-1ubuntu8.4
- Ubuntu 8.10:
- kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.10-0ubuntu6.4
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
- kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy1.5
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect
the necessary changes.