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TITLE:
KDE KHTML "XMLHttpRequest" Security Bypass

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37605

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://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:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20091027-1.txt

Portcullis:
http://www.portcullis-security.com/330.php
http://www.portcullis-security.com/331.php
http://www.portcullis-security.com/332.php

oCERT:
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-015.html

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