Bug 620897 (CVE-2010-2536)

Summary:	CVE-2010-2536 rekonq: universal XSS issue
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	fedora, thomasj
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OS:	Linux
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Description Vincent Danen 2010-08-03 18:06:09 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-2536 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2010-2536
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2536
Assigned: 20100630
Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20100721 Re: Universal XSS in Rekonq
Reference: URL: http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127973502617945&w=2
Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20100721 Universal XSS in Rekonq
Reference: URL: http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127971194610788&w=2
Reference: CONFIRM: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217464
Reference: OSVDB:66568
Reference: URL: http://www.osvdb.org/66568
Reference: SECUNIA:40646
Reference: URL: http://secunia.com/advisories/40646

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in rekonq 0.5 and
earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML
via (1) a URL associated with a nonexistent domain name, related to
webpage.cpp, aka a "universal XSS" issue; (2) unspecified vectors
related to webview.cpp; and the about: views for (3) favorites, (4)
bookmarks, (5) closed tabs, and (6) history.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2010-08-03 18:08:29 UTC

The upstream bug report includes a patch that should correct this issue.  It would affect rekonq on all currently supported Fedora versions (12, 13, and rawhide).

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2010-08-03 18:09:01 UTC

Created rekonq tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 620899]