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KDE Security Advisory 2004-08-11.3

KDE Security Advisory 2004-08-11.3
Posted Aug 12, 2004
Authored by KDE Desktop | Site kde.org

KDE Security Advisory - The Konqueror webbrowser allows websites to load webpages into a frame of any other frame-based webpage that the user may have open. A malicious website could abuse Konqueror to insert its own frames into the page of an otherwise trusted website. As a result the user may unknowingly send confidential information intended for the trusted website to the malicious website.

tags | advisory
advisories | CVE-2004-0721
SHA-256 | b7ff3009fd3623b629ad1c23d4c939e8d8d86da8e264bc838bb07aa33d69cf78

KDE Security Advisory 2004-08-11.3

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KDE Security Advisory: Konqueror Frame Injection Vulnerability
Original Release Date: 2004-08-11
URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20040811-3.txt

0. References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0721
http://secunia.com/advisories/11978/
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/48793
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84352

1. Systems affected:

All versions of KDE up to KDE 3.2.3 inclusive.


2. Overview:

The Konqueror webbrowser allows websites to load webpages into
a frame of any other frame-based webpage that the user may have open.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the name CAN-2004-0721 to this issue.


3. Impact:

A malicious website could abuse Konqueror to insert its own frames
into the page of an otherwise trusted website. As a result the user
may unknowingly send confidential information intended for the
trusted website to the malicious website.


4. Solution:

Source code patches have been made available which fix these
vulnerabilities. Contact your OS vendor / binary package provider
for information about how to obtain updated binary packages.


5. Patch:

Patches for KDE 3.0.5b are available from
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches :

aa3ac08a45851a1c33b2fcd435e1d514 post-3.0.5b-kdelibs-htmlframes.patch
dc4dfff2df75d19e527368f56dc92abb post-3.0.5b-kdebase-htmlframes.patch

Patches for KDE 3.1.5 are available from
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches :

e6cebe1f93f7497d720018362077dcf7 post-3.1.5-kdelibs-htmlframes.patch
caa562da0735deacba3ae9170f2bf18f post-3.1.5-kdebase-htmlframes.patch

Patches for KDE 3.2.3 are available from
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches :

8384f2785295be7082d9984ba8e175eb post-3.2.3-kdelibs-htmlframes.patch
a60fd1628607d4abdeb930662d126171 post-3.2.3-kdebase-htmlframes.patch


6. Time line and credits:


01/07/2004 Secunia publishes security advisory
04/08/2004 Patches created
05/08/2004 Vendors notified
11/08/2004 Public advisory

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