Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1868-1 kde4libs -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

19 Aug 2009

Affected Packages:

kde4libs

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 534949.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-1690, CVE-2009-1698, CVE-2009-1687.

More information:

Several security issues have been discovered in kde4libs, core libraries for all KDE 4 applications. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2009-1690
It was discovered that there is a use-after-free flaw in handling certain DOM event handlers. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary code, when visiting a malicious website.
CVE-2009-1698
It was discovered that there could be an uninitialised pointer when handling a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) attr function call. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary code, when visiting a malicious website.
CVE-2009-1687
It was discovered that the JavaScript garbage collector does not handle allocation failures properly, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when visiting a malicious website.

The oldstable distribution (etch) does not contain kde4libs.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 4:4.1.0-3+lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), these problems will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4:4.3.0-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your kde4libs packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kde4libs_4.1.0-3+lenny1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kde4libs_4.1.0-3+lenny1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kde4libs_4.1.0.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-data_4.1.0-3+lenny1_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs-bin_4.1.0-3+lenny1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dbg_4.1.0-3+lenny1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dev_4.1.0-3+lenny1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5_4.1.0-3+lenny1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs-bin_4.1.0-3+lenny1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dbg_4.1.0-3+lenny1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5_4.1.0-3+lenny1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dev_4.1.0-3+lenny1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs-bin_4.1.0-3+lenny1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dbg_4.1.0-3+lenny1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dev_4.1.0-3+lenny1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5_4.1.0-3+lenny1_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs-bin_4.1.0-3+lenny1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5_4.1.0-3+lenny1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dbg_4.1.0-3+lenny1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dev_4.1.0-3+lenny1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5_4.1.0-3+lenny1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dev_4.1.0-3+lenny1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs-bin_4.1.0-3+lenny1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dbg_4.1.0-3+lenny1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs-bin_4.1.0-3+lenny1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dbg_4.1.0-3+lenny1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dev_4.1.0-3+lenny1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5_4.1.0-3+lenny1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs-bin_4.1.0-3+lenny1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dev_4.1.0-3+lenny1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dbg_4.1.0-3+lenny1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5_4.1.0-3+lenny1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dev_4.1.0-3+lenny1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dbg_4.1.0-3+lenny1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs-bin_4.1.0-3+lenny1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5_4.1.0-3+lenny1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5_4.1.0-3+lenny1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dev_4.1.0-3+lenny1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs-bin_4.1.0-3+lenny1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dbg_4.1.0-3+lenny1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dev_4.1.0-3+lenny1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5-dbg_4.1.0-3+lenny1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs-bin_4.1.0-3+lenny1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kde4libs/kdelibs5_4.1.0-3+lenny1_s390.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.