FreshPorts - VuXML

Albert Astals Cid reports:

KAuth contains a logic flaw in which the service invoking dbus is not properly checked. This allows spoofing the identity of the caller and with some carefully crafted calls can lead to gaining root from an unprivileged account.

< 4.14.30_4

< 5.33.0_1

Albert Astals Cid reports:

Using a malicious PAC file, and then using exfiltration methods in the PAC function FindProxyForURL() enables the attacker to expose full https URLs.

This is a security issue since https URLs may contain sensitive information in the URL authentication part (user:password@host), and in the path and the query (e.g. access tokens).

This attack can be carried out remotely (over the LAN) since proxy settings allow "Detect Proxy Configuration Automatically". This setting uses WPAD to retrieve the PAC file, and an attacker who has access to the victim's LAN can interfere with the WPAD protocols (DHCP/DNS+HTTP) and inject his/her own malicious PAC instead of the legitimate one.

< 4.14.29_10

< 5.31.0_1

oCERT reports:

Ark input sanitization errors: The KDE archiving tool, Ark, performs insufficient validation which leads to specially crafted archive files, using unknown MIME types, to be rendered using a KHTML instance, this can trigger uncontrolled XMLHTTPRequests to remote sites.

IO Slaves input sanitization errors: KDE protocol handlers perform insufficient input validation, an attacker can craft malicious URI that would trigger JavaScript execution. Additionally the 'help://' protocol handler suffer from directory traversal. It should be noted that the scope of this issue is limited as the malicious URIs cannot be embedded in Internet hosted content.

KMail input sanitization errors: The KDE mail client, KMail, performs insufficient validation which leads to specially crafted email attachments, using unknown MIME types, to be rendered using a KHTML instance, this can trigger uncontrolled XMLHTTPRequests to remote sites.

The exploitation of these vulnerabilities is unlikely according to Portcullis and KDE but the execution of active content is nonetheless unexpected and might pose a threat.

ge 4.0.* lt 4.3.1_2

ge 4.0.* lt 4.3.1_5

David Faure reports:

A maliciously crafted archive (.zip or .tar.bz2) with "../" in the file paths could be offered for download via the KNewStuff framework (e.g. on www.kde-look.org), and upon extraction would install files anywhere in the user's home directory.

< 4.14.10_7

Martin Sandsmark reports:

The KAuth framework uses polkit-1 API which tries to authenticate using the requestors PID. This is prone to PID reuse race conditions.

This potentially allows a malicious application to pose as another for authentication purposes when executing privileged actions.

< 4.12.5_3

KDE Security Advisory reports:

The default rendering type for a QLabel is QLabel::AutoText, which uses heuristics to determine whether to render the given content as plain text or rich text. KSSL and Rekonq did not properly force its QLabels to use QLabel::PlainText. As a result, if given a certificate containing rich text in its fields, they would render the rich text. Specifically, a certificate containing a common name (CN) that has a table element will cause the second line of the table to be displayed. This can allow spoofing of the certificate's common name.

ge 4.0.* lt 4.7.2

< 0.8.0