National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2164
Original release date:04/22/2007
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Konqueror 3.5.5 release 45.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash or abort) via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /(.)*/.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Mandriva (09/18/2007)
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Mandriva does not consider crashes of client applications such as Konqueror to be a security issue.
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External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070417 Re: Internet Explorer Crash
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070417 Internet Explorer Crash
External Source: SREASON
Name: 2600