National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4382
Original release date:10/02/2008
Last revised:10/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Konqueror in KDE 3.5.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via Javascript that calls the alert function with a URL-encoded string of a large number of invalid characters.
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 Red Hat (01/01/1900)
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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-alert-function-dos(45645)
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080930 Re: MS Internet Explorer 7 Denial Of Service Exploit