USN-1842-1: KDE-Libs vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 13.04
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• kde4libs - KDE 4 core applications and libraries

Details

It was discovered that KIO would sometimes display web authentication
credentials under certain error conditions. If a user were tricked into
opening a specially crafted web page, an attacker could potentially exploit
this to expose confidential information.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.04

• libkio5 - 4:4.10.2-0ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 12.10

• libkio5 - 4:4.9.5-0ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 12.04

• libkio5 - 4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.2

After a standard system update you need to restart any applications that
use KIO from KDE-Libs, such as Konqueror, to make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2013-2074