National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-1000
Original release date:05/17/2010
Last revised:09/07/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Directory traversal vulnerability in KGet in KDE SC 4.0.0 through 4.4.3 allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in the name attribute of a file element in a metalink file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
4.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
Solution
Per: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20100513-1.txt
'Patches have been committed to the KDE Subversion repository in the
following revision numbers:
4.3 branch: r1126227
4.4 branch: r1124974
Trunk: r1124976'
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External Source: XF
Name: kde-name-directory-traversal(58628)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2011-1101
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-3096
Type: Advisory
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1144
Type: Advisory
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1142
Type: Advisory
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-938-1
External Source: BID
Name: 40141
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20100514 Re: Secunia Research: KDE KGet Insecure File Operation Vulnerability
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20100513 Secunia Research: KDE KGet metalink
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2010:098
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20100513-1.txt
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1023984
External Source: MISC
Name: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-69/
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 42423
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39787
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39528
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 64690
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100513 KDENetwork vulnerabilities
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2010:024
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2011-5211
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2010-18029