USN-420-1: KDE library vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06
• Ubuntu 5.10

Details

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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 6.10

• kdelibs4c2a - 4:3.5.5-0ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• kdelibs4c2a - 4:3.5.2-0ubuntu18.2

Ubuntu 5.10

• kdelibs4c2 - 4:3.4.3-0ubuntu2.2

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

References

• CVE-2007-0537