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KDEkdelibs Floating Point Numbers Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 28 Jan 2011 Release Date: 23 Nov 2009 5409 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

A vulnerability has been identified in KDE kdelibs, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a memory corruption error when processing floating point numbers, which could allow remote attackers to crash an affected browser or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.


Impact

  • Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

  • KDE KDELibs versions 4.x


Solutions

There is no patch available for this vulnerability currently.


Vulnerability Identifier

  • No CVE information is available

Source


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