>> KDE "kjs" UTF-8 Encoded URI Handling Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Title : KDE "kjs" UTF-8 Encoded URI Handling Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0265 CVE ID : CVE-2006-0019
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-01-20
Technical Description
A critical vulnerability has been identified in KDE, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a heap overflow error in the JavaScript interpreter engine (kjs/function.cpp) when decoding specially crafted UTF-8 encoded URI sequences, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system by convincing a user to visit a malicious web page containing a malformed JavaScript code via an application that uses the vulnerable engine (e.g. Konqueror).
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