Summary
The remote host is missing an update to kdelibs
announced via advisory DSA 1867-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201867-1
Insight
Several security issues have been discovered in kdelibs, core libraries from the official KDE release. 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.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny2.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch2.
For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your kdelibs packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-1687, CVE-2009-1690, CVE-2009-1698 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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