Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2414-1
24th 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 version:
- 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.