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Message-ID: <5076FD82.3060000@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:10:26 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Tim Brown <timb@...-dimension.org.uk>, security@....org
Subject: Re: Pre-advisory for Konqueror 4.7.3 (other versions
 may be affected)

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On 10/10/2012 07:52 PM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> On 10/10/2012 04:12 PM, Tim Brown wrote:
>> Taken from NDSA20121010: --8<-------- This advisory comes in 4
>> related parts:
> 
>> 1) The Konqueror web browser is vulnerable to type confusion 
>> leading to memory disclosure.  The root cause of this is the
>> same as CVE-2010-0046 reported by Chris Rohlf which affected
>> WebKit.

Please use CVE-2012-4512 for this issue.

>> 2) The Konqueror web browser is vulnerable to an out of bounds 
>> memory access when accessing the canvas.  In this case the 
>> vulnerability was identified whilst playing with bug #43813 from
>>  Google's Chrome repository.

Please use CVE-2012-4513 for this issue.

>> 3) The Konqueror web browser is vulnerable to a NULL pointer 
>> dereference leading to a crash.
> 
>> 4) The Konqueror web browser is vulnerable to a "use-after-free"
>>  class flaw when the context menu is used whilst the document
>> DOM that is being changed from within Javascript.

Please use CVE-2012-4514 for this issue.

>> These flaws were identified during an analysis of previously 
>> reported vulnerabilities that affected Google's Chrome web
>> browser. It is believed that only vulnerability 1 is/was common
>> to the two code bases.

Please use CVE-2012-4515 for this issue.

>> --8<--------
> 
>> I'm pre-advising on these flaws since I've not heard anything
>> from the KDE project in about 8 months regarding 3 and 4 and we
>> are aware that 1 and 2 have been fixed.  I'll give it 7 days and
>> then drop technical details.  Vendors with an interest can
>> contact me off list.
> 
>> Tim



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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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