National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3672
Original release date:07/18/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
KDE Konqueror 3.5.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the replaceChild method on a DOM object, which triggers a null dereference, as demonstrated by calling document.replaceChild with a 0 (zero) argument.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
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 disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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We do not consider a crash of a client application such as Konqueror to be a security issue.
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External Source: XF
Name: konqueror-replacechild-dos(27744)
External Source: BID
Name: 18978
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 27058
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-2812
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-14-konqueror-replacechild.html
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-322-1
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:130
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:130