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ELSA-2012-1418 Critical: Oracle Linux kdelibs security update

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ELSA-2012-1418 Critical: Oracle Linux kdelibs security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/11/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/03/2013
Modified
03/05/2020

Description

The CSS parser (khtml/css/cssparser.cpp) in Konqueror in KDE 4.7.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly read memory via a crafted font face source, related to "type confusion."

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kdelibs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kdelibs-apidocs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kdelibs-common
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kdelibs-devel

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