Debian Security Advisory

DSA-948-1 kdelibs -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
20 Jan 2006
Affected Packages:
kdelibs
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-0019.
More information:

Maksim Orlovich discovered that the kjs Javascript interpreter, used in the Konqueror web browser and in other parts of KDE, performs insufficient bounds checking when parsing UTF-8 encoded Uniform Resource Identifiers, which may lead to a heap based buffer overflow and the execution of arbitrary code.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.2-6.4

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your kdelibs package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs_3.3.2-6.4.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs_3.3.2-6.4.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs_3.3.2.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-data_3.3.2-6.4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-doc_3.3.2-6.4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs_3.3.2-6.4_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-bin_3.3.2-6.4_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4_3.3.2-6.4_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.3.2-6.4_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-bin_3.3.2-6.4_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4_3.3.2-6.4_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.3.2-6.4_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-bin_3.3.2-6.4_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4_3.3.2-6.4_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.3.2-6.4_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-bin_3.3.2-6.4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4_3.3.2-6.4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.3.2-6.4_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-bin_3.3.2-6.4_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4_3.3.2-6.4_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.3.2-6.4_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-bin_3.3.2-6.4_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4_3.3.2-6.4_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.3.2-6.4_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-bin_3.3.2-6.4_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4_3.3.2-6.4_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.3.2-6.4_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-bin_3.3.2-6.4_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4_3.3.2-6.4_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.3.2-6.4_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-bin_3.3.2-6.4_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4_3.3.2-6.4_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.3.2-6.4_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-bin_3.3.2-6.4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4_3.3.2-6.4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.3.2-6.4_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-bin_3.3.2-6.4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4_3.3.2-6.4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.3.2-6.4_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-bin_3.3.2-6.4_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4_3.3.2-6.4_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4-dev_3.3.2-6.4_sparc.deb

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