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 KHTML "XMLHttpRequest" Security Bypass
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37605
VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/37605/
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. In combination with other issues this may allow the
disclosure of arbitrary local files.
The security issue is reported in versions prior to 4.3.3.
SOLUTION:
Update to KDE 4.3.3.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tim Brown, Portcullis Computer Security Ltd.
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
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