Secunia Security Advisory - A security issue has been reported in KDE, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
KDE 3.5 KHTML "XMLHttpRequest" Security Bypass
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37617
VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/37617/
DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in KDE, which can be exploited by
malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.
The XMLHttpRequest implementation of KHTML allows to send requests to
e.g. KIO slaves.
For more information:
SA37605
SOLUTION:
Apply the patch:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/xmlhttprequest_3.x.diff
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tim Brown, Portcullis Computer Security Ltd.
Also partially discussed at:
https://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?3,14265,32092
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
KDE:
https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20091027-1.txt
Portcullis:
https://www.portcullis-security.com/330.php
https://www.portcullis-security.com/331.php
https://www.portcullis-security.com/332.php
oCERT:
https://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-015.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA37605:
https://secunia.com/advisories/37605/
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