USN-871-1: KDE vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• 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 versions:

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

• kdelibs4c2a - 4:3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy1.5

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

References

• CVE-2009-0689

Related notices

• USN-915-1: thunderbird