USN-871-2: KDE 4 vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.10

Packages

• kde4libs -

Details

USN-871-1 fixed vulnerabilities in KDE. This update provides the
corresponding updates for KDE 4.

This update also fixes a directory traversal flaw in KDE when processing
help:// URLs. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.10.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that the KDE libraries could use KHTML to process an
unknown MIME type. If a user or application linked against kdelibs were
tricked into opening a crafted file, an attacker could potentially trigger
XMLHTTPRequests to remote sites.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.10

• kdelibs5 - 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu7.2

Ubuntu 9.04

• kdelibs5 - 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu5.4

Ubuntu 8.10

• kdelibs5 - 4:4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid1.5

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect
the necessary changes.

References

• https://launchpad.net/bugs/495301