Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1916-1 kdelibs -- insufficient input validation
- Date Reported:
- 23 Oct 2009
- Affected Packages:
- kdelibs
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 546212.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-2702. - More information:
-
Dan Kaminsky and Moxie Marlinspike discovered that kdelibs, core libraries from the official KDE release, does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Subject Alternative Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3.
Due to a bug in the archive system, the fix for the stable distribution (lenny), will be released as version 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny3 once it is available.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-2.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your kdelibs packages.
- Fixed in:
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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs_3.5.5a.dfsg.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-data_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-doc_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-dbg_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.