Synopsis: Critical: kdelibs security update Issue date: 2009-06-25 CVE Names: CVE-2009-1687 CVE-2009-1690 CVE-2009-1698 A flaw was found in the way the KDE CSS parser handled content for the CSS "style" attribute. A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted CSS equipped HTML page, which once visited by an unsuspecting user, could cause a denial of service (Konqueror crash) or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Konqueror. (CVE-2009-1698) A flaw was found in the way the KDE HTML parser handled content for the HTML "head" element. A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted HTML page, which once visited by an unsuspecting user, could cause a denial of service (Konqueror crash) or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Konqueror. (CVE-2009-1690) An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way the KDE JavaScript garbage collector handled memory allocation requests. A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted HTML page, which once visited by an unsuspecting user, could cause a denial of service (Konqueror crash) or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Konqueror. (CVE-2009-1687) The desktop must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect. SL 4.x SRPMS: kdelibs-3.3.1-14.el4.src.rpm i386: kdelibs-3.3.1-14.el4.i386.rpm kdelibs-devel-3.3.1-14.el4.i386.rpm x86_64: kdelibs-3.3.1-14.el4.i386.rpm kdelibs-3.3.1-14.el4.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-devel-3.3.1-14.el4.x86_64.rpm SL 5.x SRPMS: kdelibs-3.5.4-22.el5_3.src.rpm i386: kdelibs-3.5.4-22.el5_3.i386.rpm kdelibs-apidocs-3.5.4-22.el5_3.i386.rpm kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-22.el5_3.i386.rpm x86_64: kdelibs-3.5.4-22.el5_3.i386.rpm kdelibs-3.5.4-22.el5_3.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-apidocs-3.5.4-22.el5_3.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-22.el5_3.i386.rpm kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-22.el5_3.x86_64.rpm -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson