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Message #01231
[Bug 1393479] Re: security: Insufficient Input Validation By IO Slaves and Webkit Part
The patch for webkitkde doesn't seem relevant for lucid, the code it
patches doesn't exist
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1393479
Title:
security: Insufficient Input Validation By IO Slaves and Webkit Part
Status in “kde-runtime” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “kio-extras” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “webkitkde” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “kde-runtime” source package in Precise:
New
Status in “kio-extras” source package in Precise:
New
Status in “webkitkde” source package in Precise:
New
Status in “kde-runtime” source package in Trusty:
New
Status in “kio-extras” source package in Trusty:
New
Status in “webkitkde” source package in Trusty:
New
Status in “kde-runtime” source package in Utopic:
New
Status in “kio-extras” source package in Utopic:
New
Status in “webkitkde” source package in Utopic:
New
Status in “kde-runtime” source package in Vivid:
New
Status in “kio-extras” source package in Vivid:
Fix Released
Status in “webkitkde” source package in Vivid:
Fix Released
Bug description:
https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20141113-1.txt
verview
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kwebkitpart and the bookmarks:// io slave were not sanitizing input correctly allowing to
some javascript being executed on the context of the referenced hostname. For example going to
bookmarks://hhdhdhhdhdhdh.google.com/'><script>alert('bookmarks'+document.domain);</script>
in Konqueror makes a Javascript alert popup.
Impact
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Whilst in most cases, the JavaScript will be executed in an untrusted context, with the bookmarks IO slave,
it will be executed in the context of the referenced hostname. In the example above, this is hhdhdhhdhdhdh.google.com.
It should however be noted that KDE mitigates this risk by attempting to ensure that such URLs cannot be embedded directly
into Internet hosted content.
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