National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-3365

Overview

The KDE SSL Wrapper (KSSL) API in KDE SC 4.6.0 through 4.7.1, and possibly earlier versions, does not use a certain font when rendering certificate fields in a security dialog, which allows remote attackers to spoof the common name (CN) of a certificate via rich text.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743054

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743054

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:1385

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1385.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:1364

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1364.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2011:162

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:162

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20111003-1.txt

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20111003-1.txt