Bug 129228

Summary: CAN-2004-0746 Konqueror Cross-Domain Cookie Injection
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: kdelibsAssignee: Than Ngo <than>
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Version: 3.0CC: security-response-team
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Description Josh Bressers 2004-08-05 13:41:23 UTC
1. Systems affected:

        All versions of KDE up to KDE 3.2.3 inclusive.


2. Overview:

        WESTPOINT internet reconnaissance services alerted the KDE
        security team that the KDE web browser Konqueror allows websites
        to set cookies for certain country specific secondary top
level domains.


3. Impact:

        Web sites operating under the affected domains can set HTTP
        cookies in such a way that the Konqueror web browser will send
them
        to all other web sites operating under the same domain.
        A malicious website can use this as part of a session fixation
        attack. See e.g. http://www.acros.si/papers/session_fixation.pdf

        Affected are all country specific secondary top level domains
that use more than 2 characters in the secondary part of the domain
name and that use a secondary part other than com, net, mil, org, gov,
       edu or int. Examples of affected domains are .ltd.uk, .plc.uk
and        .firm.in It should be noted that popular domains such as
.co.uk, .co.in and .com are NOT affected.



Embargoed until Aug 20

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2004-08-05 13:42:06 UTC
This issue should also affect RHEL2.1

In order to verify this issue, we're going to have to jump through
some pretty big hoops.

Comment 2 Than Ngo 2004-08-10 18:54:34 UTC
it's fixed in kdelibs-3.1.3-6.6/kdebase-3.1.3-5.4 for RHEL3

for 2.1AS it still needs doing backport.

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2004-08-23 14:08:46 UTC
public, removing embargo.

Comment 4 Josh Bressers 2004-10-04 15:28:45 UTC
An errata has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-412.html


Comment 5 Josh Bressers 2004-10-05 13:39:02 UTC
An errata has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-412.html