National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4229
Original release date:08/08/2007
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in KDE Konqueror 3.5.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (failed assertion and application crash) via certain malformed HTML, as demonstrated by a document containing TEXTAREA, BUTTON, BR, BDO, PRE, FRAMESET, and A tags. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
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.
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/09/2007)
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Red Hat does not consider a crash of a client application such as Konqueror to be a security flaw.
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External Source: BID
Name: 25170
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 42552
External Source: MISC
Name: http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/25170.html
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070801 [BuHa-Security] DoS Vulnerability in Konqueror 3.5.7