Bug 505571 (CVE-2009-1690)

Summary:	CVE-2009-1690 kdelibs: KHTML Incorrect handling <head> element content once the <head> element was removed (DoS, ACE)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bressers, jreznik, kevin, kreilly, mjc, security-response-team, than
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/42532
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Bug Depends On:	505619, 505620, 505621, 505622, 833918
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2009-06-12 13:45:56 UTC

KDE HTML parser incorrectly handled content, forming the HTML page 
<head> element. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial
of service (konqueror crash) or, potentially, execute arbitrary code, 
with the privileges of the user running "konqueror" web browser, if the
victim was tricked to open a specially-crafted HTML page.

References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1690
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613
http://secunia.com/advisories/35379/

Upstream patch:
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/42532

Upstream PoC:
http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/LayoutTests/fast/parser/head-content-after-head-removal.html?format=txt

Comment 6 Jan Lieskovsky 2009-06-18 10:24:36 UTC

Upstream KDE 4.2 patch:

http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=983316

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2009-06-25 16:42:05 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1127 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1127.html

Comment 9 Kevin Kofler 2009-07-25 22:46:58 UTC

This also affects kdelibs 4.2.4 and kdelibs3 3.5.10 in Fedora.

Comment 10 Kevin Kofler 2009-07-26 00:06:03 UTC

For QtWebKit, this is fixed in Qt 4.5.2 which got pushed to Fedora updates recently. I didn't check earlier versions.

Comment 11 Kevin Kofler 2009-07-26 01:25:37 UTC

This one is fixed in Rawhide's kdelibs 4.2.98.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2009-07-26 08:29:13 UTC

kdelibs-4.2.4-6.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kdelibs-4.2.4-6.fc11

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2009-07-26 08:30:46 UTC

kdelibs-4.2.4-6.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kdelibs-4.2.4-6.fc10

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2009-07-26 08:35:00 UTC

kdelibs3-3.5.10-13.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kdelibs3-3.5.10-13.fc11

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2009-07-26 08:45:02 UTC

kdelibs3-3.5.10-13.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kdelibs3-3.5.10-13.fc10

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2009-07-28 18:22:55 UTC

kdelibs-4.2.4-6.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2009-07-28 18:26:25 UTC

kdelibs-4.2.4-6.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2009-07-28 18:27:11 UTC

kdelibs3-3.5.10-13.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 19 Fedora Update System 2009-07-28 18:27:49 UTC

kdelibs3-3.5.10-13.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.