32975 : KDE Konqueror KDE HTML library (kdelibs) HTML Parsing XSS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2007-01-23

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2007-0537" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : The KDE HTML library (kdelibs), as used by Konqueror 3.5.5, does not properly parse HTML comments, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS protection schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within a comment in a title tag, a related issue to CVE-2007-0478.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
OSVDB: Web Related

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1017591
CVE ID: 2007-0537 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 22428
Secunia Advisory ID: 23932 24013 24065 24442 24463 24889 27108
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2007-0505
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-01/0540.html
Other Advisory URL: http://lists.rpath.com/pipermail/security-announce/2007-March/000161.html
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Apr/0002.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-10.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:031
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-420-1
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2007:0909

Tools & Filters

	24644 24802 26952 27289 28012 29482

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 2.6
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-01-29 | Disagree?

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