| Name | CVE-2008-4382 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| kdebase | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
browser dos not treated as security issue. This is the same like CVE-2008-4381
which will work in every JS browser as the PoC just creates a large string passing
it to alert and thus eating memory, no security issue.