Package: kde4libs
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch
Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for kde4libs.
CVE-2008-1670[0]:
| The new progressive PNG Image loader in KHTML of KDE 4.0 and newer
| can be tricked into overrunning a heap allocated memory buffer
| by loading a specially encoded image.
Note, the mitre description is still on status RESERVED, use the upstream advisory as reference for now:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20080426-1.txt
Patch:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-kde-4.0.3-khtml.diff
If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.
For further information see:
[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1670
http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-1670
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