USN-2414-1: KDE-Runtime vulnerability

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.

References

CVE-2014-8600

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