Bug 251708 (CVE-2007-4224)

Summary: CVE-2007-4224 URL spoof in address bar
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: kreilly, than
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-4224
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Bug Depends On: 290851, 290861, 290871, 290881, 293401, 293411, 293421, 293431    
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-08-10 15:42:37 UTC
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-4224
to the following vulnerability:

KDE Konqueror 3.5.7 allows remote attackers to spoof the URL address bar by calling setInterval with a small interval and changing the window.location property.

References:

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-August/065101.html

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2007-08-20 10:37:54 UTC
KDE security advisory targeting CVE-2007-3820, CVE-2007-4224 and CVE-2007-4225
with references to official upstream patches:

http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070816-1.txt

Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2007-09-05 15:05:20 UTC
this is a low severity flaw which does not trigger the need for a security
update to kde.  We will fix this issue when other issues of higher severity
trigger a kde security update.