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KDE Security Advisory: Secure Cookie Vulnerability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dirk Mueller)
Wed Sep 11 11:57:42 2002
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 01:11:03 +0200
From: Dirk Mueller <mueller@kde.org>
To: kde-announce@kde.org, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Message-ID: <20020910231103.GA9492@matrix.wg>
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KDE Security Advisory: Secure Cookie Vulnerability
Original Release Date: 2002-09-08
URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20020908-1.txt
0. References
None.
1. Systems affected:
Konqueror in KDE 3.0, KDE 3.0.1 and KDE 3.0.2.
KDE 2.2.2 and KDE 3.0.3 are NOT affected.
2. Overview:
Konqueror fails to detect the "secure" flag in HTTP cookies and as
a result may send secure cookies back to the originating site over
an unencrypted network connection.
3. Impact:
A secure session that relies solely on secure cookies for
identifying the session can possibly be hijacked, or an account
which relies solely on secure cookies for logging on may be
compromised, by an attacker who manages to eavesdrop on the
unencrypted network connection.
4. Solution:
Upgrade to KDE 3.0.3 in which this problem is fixed or apply the
patch below.
5. Patch:
A patch for KDE 3.0, KDE 3.0.1 and KDE 3.0.2 is available from
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches :
1abff4a02381b5ca11273d02c6a5c6ca post-3.0-kdelibs-kcookiejar.diff
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