kde-runtime vulnerability

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-8600  

KDE-Runtime could be made to run arbitrary javascript.

Tim Brown and Darron Burton discovered that KDE-Runtime incorrectly handled input validation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary javascript.

24 November 2014

kde-runtime vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

KDE-Runtime could be made to run arbitrary javascript.

Software Description

  • kde-runtime - runtime components from the official KDE release

Details

Tim Brown and Darron Burton discovered that KDE-Runtime incorrectly handled input validation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary javascript.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
kde-runtime - 4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.3

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes.

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