Summary
The remote host is missing an update to kdelibs
announced via advisory DSA 361-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20361-1
Insight
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in kdelibs:
- - CVE-2003-0459: KDE Konqueror for KDE 3.1.2 and earlier does not remove authentication credentials from URLs of the 'user:password@host' form in the HTTP-Referer header, which could allow remote web sites to steal the credentials for pages that link to the sites.
- - CVE-2003-0370: Konqueror Embedded and KDE 2.2.2 and earlier does not validate the Common Name (CN) field for X.509 Certificates, which could allow remote attackers to spoof certificates via a man-in-the-middle attack.
These vulnerabilities are described in the following security advisories from KDE:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20030729-1.txt http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20030602-1.txt
For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.2-13.woody.8.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 4:3.1.3-1.
We recommend that you update your kdelibs package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2003-0370, CVE-2003-0459 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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