Vulnerability CVE-2008-5698
Published: 2008-12-22   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
HTMLTokenizer::scriptHandler in Konqueror in KDE 3.5.9 and 3.5.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an invalid document.load call that triggers use of a deleted object. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
Konqueror 3.5.9 (load) Remote Crash Vulnerability
Jeremy Brown
23.12.2008

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
KDE -> Konqueror 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45804
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2915
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31696
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/6718
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4796
http://secunia.com/advisories/32208
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