An attacker could send crafted input to Konqueror to view sensitive information.
It was discovered that KDE KSSL did not properly verify X.509 certificates when the certificate was issued for an IP address. An attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. (CVE-2011-1094)
14 April 2011
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
An attacker could send crafted input to Konqueror to view sensitive information.
It was discovered that KDE KSSL did not properly verify X.509 certificates when the certificate was issued for an IP address. An attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. (CVE-2011-1094)
Tim Brown discovered that KDE KHTML did not properly escape URLs from externally generated error pages. An attacker could expoit this to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data (such as passwords), within the same domain. (CVE-2011-1168)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart any applications that use KSSL or KHTML, such as Konqueror, to make all the necessary changes.
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