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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200601-11">
+ <title>KDE kjs: URI heap overflow vulnerability</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ KDE fails to properly validate URIs when handling javascript, potentially
+ resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">KDE</product>
+ <announced>2006-01-22</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2006-01-22</revised>
+ <bug>118550</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="kde-base/kdelibs" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">3.4.3-r1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">3.4.3-r1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and
+ Unix-like Operating Systems. kjs is the javascript interpreter used in
+ Konqueror and other parts of KDE.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Maksim Orlovich discovered an incorrect bounds check in kjs when
+ handling URIs.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ By enticing a user to load a specially crafted webpage containing
+ malicious javascript, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the
+ rights of the user running kjs.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All kdelibs users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose kde-base/kdelibs-3.4.3-r1</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0019">CVE-2006-0019</uri>
+ <uri link="https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060119-1.txt">KDE Security Advisory: kjs encodeuri/decodeuri heap overflow vulnerability</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-01-20T06:30:56Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-01-21T13:57:57Z">
+ DerCorny
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>