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[ MDKSA-2007:157 ] - Updated kdelibs packages fix cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities

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Date: Fri Aug 10 2007 - 19:58:41 CDT


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 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2007:157
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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 Package : kdelibs
 Date : August 10, 2007
 Affected: 2007.1
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 Problem Description:
 
 The KDE HTML library (kdelibs), as used by Konqueror 3.5.5, does not
 properly parse HTML comments, which allows remote attackers to conduct
 cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS protection
 schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within a comment in a title
 tag, a related issue to CVE-2007-0478. Also affects kdelibs 3.5.6,
 as per KDE official advisory.
 
 Updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
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 References:
 
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0537
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 Updated Packages:
 
 Mandriva Linux 2007.1:
 290249d063eb99aa0267060e28bd3d63 2007.1/i586/kdelibs-common-3.5.6-11.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 0392bf166e2b95b8274f67e24066dc8a 2007.1/i586/kdelibs-devel-doc-3.5.6-11.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 06107eb81ff8b184812f7a8ae31b52b9 2007.1/i586/libkdecore4-3.5.6-11.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 ffb71260989867bcec7d7fae45b86b5a 2007.1/i586/libkdecore4-devel-3.5.6-11.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 2f2938b43f88a2a197e6cc90b35c63b8 2007.1/SRPMS/kdelibs-3.5.6-11.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64:
 258cf38cce814a12a44c79c283de7c3d 2007.1/x86_64/kdelibs-common-3.5.6-11.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 70b9d63ac375ba65fb6c6b526dfe80f0 2007.1/x86_64/kdelibs-devel-doc-3.5.6-11.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 ee0681c70efd4cebb72a23b773d56f09 2007.1/x86_64/lib64kdecore4-3.5.6-11.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 664da181e64ab3f343b265cac6de0e87 2007.1/x86_64/lib64kdecore4-devel-3.5.6-11.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 2f2938b43f88a2a197e6cc90b35c63b8 2007.1/SRPMS/kdelibs-3.5.6-11.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm
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