KDEkdelibs Floating Point Numbers Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 28 Jan 2011 Release Date: 23 Nov 2009 5260 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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