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KDE KHTML PNG Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA29980
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Release Date:
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2008-04-28
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | KDE 4.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2008-1670 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in KDE, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in KHTML when processing PNG files. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted PNG file included in e.g. a malicious web page.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability is reported in KHTML included in KDE versions 4.0 through 4.0.3.
Solution:
Apply vendor patch.
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-kde-4.0.3-khtml.diff
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.
Original Advisory:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20080426-1.txt
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