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KDE kfax libtiff vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory:	SA13394	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2004-12-10
Last Update:	2004-12-14
Popularity:	7,586 views

Critical:	Highly critical
Impact:	DoS System access
Where:	From remote
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

Software:	KDE 3.x

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CVE reference:	CVE-2004-0803 CVE-2004-0804 CVE-2004-0886 CVE-2004-1171

Description: KDE Security Team has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in KDE, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerabilities are caused due to kfax including vulnerable libtiff code, which can be exploited via specially crafted fax files to execute arbitrary code. For more information: SA12818 The vulnerabilities affects all versions prior to 3.3.2. NOTE: A potential privacy issue has also been reported. Solution: Update to version 3.3.2. http://kde.org/download/ Patches are available for the privacy issue. Patches for KDE 3.3.1: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.3.1-kdebase-smb.diff ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.3.1-kdelibs-khtml.diff ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.3.1-kdelibs-kio.diff Patch for KDE 3.3.2: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.3.2-kdelibs-kio.diff Patches for KDE 3.2.3: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.2.3-kdebase-smb.diff ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.2.3-kdelibs-khtml.diff ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.2.3-kdelibs-kio.diff Provided and/or discovered by: Privacy issue reported by: Daniel Fabian Changelog: 2004-12-14: Added link to US-CERT vulnerability note. Original Advisory: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20041209-1.txt http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20041209-2.txt Other References: SA12818: http://secunia.com/advisories/12818/ US-CERT VU#305294: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/305294

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