CVE-2008-4382

Publication date 2 October 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

Konqueror in KDE 3.5.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via Javascript that calls the alert function with a URL-encoded string of a large number of invalid characters.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
kdebase 9.04 jaunty Ignored
8.10 intrepid Ignored
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored
7.10 gutsy Ignored end of life, was needed
7.04 feisty Ignored end of life, was needed
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored

Notes

kees

Browser DoS is not strictly a security issue.

mdeslaur

as of 2009-08-21, no details, no fix browser DoS, no security issue, ignoring.