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KDE Heap Overflow Vulnerability Found

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the holes-in-the-dike dept.

sayanchak writes "An incorrect bounds check has been discovered in kjs, the JavaScript interpreter engine used by Konqueror and other parts of KDE, that allows a heap based buffer overflow when decoding specially crafted UTF-8 encoded URI sequences. It might allow malicious Javascript code to perform a heap overflow and crash Konqueror or even execute arbitrary code. Source diff patches for KDE 3.2.0 - 3.3.2 and KDE 3.4.0 - 3.5.0 are available."

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  1. Re:This is why I use Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    mod parent up as informative, please!

    then mod this down as redundant!!

    when will people understand that kde is third party software only??