Bug 244322

Summary:	KDE KHTML "HTMLTokenizer::scriptHandler()" Recursive Document Load Weakness
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Matti Bickel (RETIRED) <mabi>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	trivial	CC:	esigra
Priority:	Low
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://secunia.com/Advisories/32208/
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	245954

Description Matti Bickel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-10-25 15:44:48 UTC

Maybe this is not security, but only with the KDE folks, but here we go anyway.

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Secunia Advisory:   	 SA32208  	
Release Date: 	2008-10-24

Critical: 	Not critical
Impact: 	DoS
Where: 	        From remote
Solution Status: 	Unpatched 
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Jeremy Brown has discovered a weakness in KDE, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The weakness is caused due to KHTML improperly handling JavaScript "document.load()" calls targeting the current document. This can be exploited to trigger the use of a deleted object within the "HTMLTokenizer::scriptHandler()" method and cause a crash.

The weakness is confirmed with Konqueror using KHTML from KDE versions 3.5.9 and 3.5.10. Other versions may also be affected.

NOTE: Secunia normally does not classify a browser crash as a vulnerability nor issue an advisory about it. However, the potential impact of this issue may be more severe than currently believed.

Solution:
Do not open untrusted HTML documents with applications using KHTML (e.g. Konqueror).
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Comment 1 Matti Bickel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-10-25 16:00:12 UTC

reassigning to kde herd b/c it's not a security bug.

Comment 2 Theo Chatzimichos (RETIRED) archtester

2009-05-27 22:57:22 UTC

since development of kde3 is frozen we can't do anything so closing