National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1670
Original release date:04/28/2008
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Heap-based buffer overflow in the progressive PNG Image loader (decoders/pngloader.cpp) in KHTML in KDE 4.0.x up to 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted image.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
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:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (05/01/2008)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect versions of KDE as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.
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External Source: BID
Name: 28937
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29980
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: kde-khtml-png-bo(42038)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1019929
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20080426-1.txt
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1371
Type: Advisory
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:011