Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-3672 - Denial Of Service vulnerability in KDE Konqueror ReplaceChild
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
KDE Konqueror 3.5.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the replaceChild method on a DOM object, which triggers a null dereference, as demonstrated by calling document.replaceChild with a 0 (zero) argument.
Vulnerable Configurations
Exploit-Db
description | KDE Konqueror 3.5.x ReplaceChild Denial Of Service Vulnerability. CVE-2006-3672. Dos exploit for linux platform |
id | EDB-ID:28220 |
last seen | 2016-02-03 |
modified | 2006-07-14 |
published | 2006-07-14 |
reporter | hdm |
source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/28220/ |
title | KDE Konqueror 3.5.x ReplaceChild Denial of Service Vulnerability |
Nessus
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-322-1.NASL description A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in the replaceChild() method in KDE last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 27900 published 2007-11-10 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2007-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/27900 title Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : kdelibs vulnerability (USN-322-1) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-322-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered # trademark of Canonical, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(27900); script_version("1.14"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:33:01"); script_cve_id("CVE-2006-3672"); script_xref(name:"USN", value:"322-1"); script_name(english:"Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : kdelibs vulnerability (USN-322-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in the replaceChild() method in KDE's DOM handler. A malicious remote web page could exploit this to cause Konqueror to crash. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/322-1/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-bin"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-data"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-dbg"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4-dev"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4-doc"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4c2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4c2-dbg"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4c2a"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/07/24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/11/10"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2007-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("ubuntu.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release"); if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu"); release = chomp(release); if (! ereg(pattern:"^(5\.04|5\.10|6\.06)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06", "Ubuntu " + release); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu); flag = 0; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"kdelibs", pkgver:"4:3.4.0-0ubuntu3.6")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"kdelibs-bin", pkgver:"3.4.0-0ubuntu3.6")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"kdelibs-data", pkgver:"3.4.0-0ubuntu3.6")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"kdelibs4", pkgver:"3.4.0-0ubuntu3.6")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"kdelibs4-dev", pkgver:"3.4.0-0ubuntu3.6")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"kdelibs4-doc", pkgver:"3.4.0-0ubuntu3.6")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"kdelibs", pkgver:"4:3.4.3-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"kdelibs-bin", pkgver:"3.4.3-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"kdelibs-data", pkgver:"3.4.3-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"kdelibs4-dev", pkgver:"3.4.3-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"kdelibs4-doc", pkgver:"3.4.3-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"kdelibs4c2", pkgver:"3.4.3-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"kdelibs4c2-dbg", pkgver:"3.4.3-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"kdelibs", pkgver:"4:3.5.2-0ubuntu18.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"kdelibs-bin", pkgver:"3.5.2-0ubuntu18.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"kdelibs-data", pkgver:"3.5.2-0ubuntu18.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"kdelibs-dbg", pkgver:"3.5.2-0ubuntu18.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"kdelibs4-dev", pkgver:"3.5.2-0ubuntu18.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"kdelibs4-doc", pkgver:"3.5.2-0ubuntu18.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"kdelibs4c2a", pkgver:"3.5.2-0ubuntu18.1")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_NOTE, extra : ubuntu_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "kdelibs / kdelibs-bin / kdelibs-data / kdelibs-dbg / kdelibs4 / etc"); }
NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRAKE_MDKSA-2006-130.NASL description KDE Konqueror 3.5.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the replaceChild method on a DOM object, which triggers a null dereference, as demonstrated by calling document.replaceChild with a 0 (zero) argument. This issue does not affect Corporate 3.0. Updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 23881 published 2006-12-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/23881 title Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdelibs (MDKSA-2006:130)
Statements
contributor | Mark J Cox |
lastmodified | 2006-08-30 |
organization | Red Hat |
statement | We do not consider a crash of a client application such as Konqueror to be a security issue. |
References
- http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-14-konqueror-replacechild.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:130
- http://www.osvdb.org/27058
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18978
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-322-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2812
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27744