Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-4229 - Denial of Service vulnerability in KDE Konqueror Assert

047910
CVSS 4.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
kde
exploit available
NVD
Published: 2007-08-08
Updated: 2018-10-15

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in KDE Konqueror 3.5.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (failed assertion and application crash) via certain malformed HTML, as demonstrated by a document containing TEXTAREA, BUTTON, BR, BDO, PRE, FRAMESET, and A tags. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Kde
1

Exploit-Db

descriptionKDE Konqueror 3.5.7 Assert Denial of Service Vulnerability. CVE-2007-4229. Dos exploit for linux platform
idEDB-ID:30444
last seen2016-02-03
modified2007-03-05
published2007-03-05
reporterThomas Waldegger
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/30444/
titleKDE Konqueror <= 3.5.7 Assert Denial of Service Vulnerability

Statements

  • contributorVincent Danen
    lastmodified2007-09-18
    organizationMandriva
    statementMandriva does not consider crashes of client applications such as Konqueror to be a security issue.
  • contributorJoshua Bressers
    lastmodified2007-08-09
    organizationRed Hat
    statementRed Hat does not consider a crash of a client application such as Konqueror to be a security flaw.

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