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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-0537

Original release date:01/29/2007
Last revised:10/11/2011
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

The KDE HTML library (kdelibs), as used by Konqueror 3.5.5, does not properly parse HTML comments, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS protection schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within a comment in a title tag, a related issue to CVE-2007-0478.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:2.6 (LOW) (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 4.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (02/15/2007)
Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225414 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1117
Hyperlink:https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1117
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-0505
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0505
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-420-1
Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-420-1
External Source: BID
Name: 22428
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22428
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070124 Re: Safari Improperly Parses HTML Documents & BlogSpot XSS vulnerability
Type: Advisory; Exploit
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/457924/100/0/threaded
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0909
Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0909.html
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2007:006
Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_6_sr.html
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:157
Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:157
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:031
Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:031
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070206-1.txt
Hyperlink:http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070206-1.txt
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200703-10
Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-10.xml
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017591
Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1017591
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27108
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27108
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24889
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24889
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24463
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24463
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24442
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24442
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24065
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24065
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24013
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24013
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23932
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23932
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10244
Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10244
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 32975
Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/32975

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10244
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10244

Vulnerable software and versions

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Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)
  • Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)
CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0537