Title: KDE Personal Information Management Suite VCF File Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
KDE Personal Information Management Suite (kdepim) helps users organize mail, tasks, appointments, contacts etc. It is packaged with KDE, a graphical desktop for the X Window System.
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported to exist in the KDE Personal Information Management Suite (kdepim) that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. The issue presents itself when an attacker sends a malformed VCF file to a user on a vulnerable system. Due to a problem with the file information reader of VCF files, an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system if the malicious VCF file is opened by the user.
The condition exists due to insufficient boundary checking. Because of this, it may be possible for a remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to a system running the vulnerable software.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user.
Affected Products:
- Conectiva Linux 9.0.0
- KDE KDE 3.1.0
- KDE KDE 3.1.1
- KDE KDE 3.1.1 a
- KDE KDE 3.1.2
- KDE KDE 3.1.3
- KDE KDE 3.1.4
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 9.1.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 9.1.0 ppc
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 9.2.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 9.2.0 amd64
- RedHat Desktop 3.0.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 3
- RedHat Fedora Core1
- RedHat Linux 9.0.0 i386
- RedHat kdepim-3.1-5.i386.rpm
- RedHat kdepim-devel-3.1-5.i386.rpm
- S.u.S.E. Linux 8.1.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 8.2.0
- Slackware Linux -current
- Slackware Linux 9.0.0
- Slackware Linux 9.1.0
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