PT-2008-5631 · Kde · Konqueror

Published 2008-10-02 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-4382

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Konqueror in KDE version 3.5.9

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash. This is achieved through Javascript that calls the alert() function with a URL-encoded string containing a large number of invalid characters.

Recommendations: For Konqueror in KDE version 3.5.9, consider disabling Javascript execution as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4382

Affected Products

Konqueror

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4382 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45645 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/496849/100/0/threaded · Note