Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in KDE, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
KDE KHTML Numeric Character References Memory Corruption
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35991
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35991/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in KDE, which can be exploited by
malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in KHTML when processing
numeric character references and can be exploited to corrupt memory.
This is related to vulnerability #2 in:
SA35758
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repository.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Originally reported by Chris Evans in Safari.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1002162
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1002163
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1002164
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA35758:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35758/
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