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TITLE:
KDE KGet Directory Traversal Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44124

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-04-18

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in KDE, which can be exploited by
malicious people to compromise a user's system.

KGet does not properly sanitise the "name" attribute of the "file"
element of metalink files before using it to download files. If a
user is tricked into downloading from a specially crafted metalink
file, this can be exploited to download files to directories outside
of the intended download directory via directory traversal attacks.

Note: This is caused due to an incomplete fix for SA39528.

The vulnerability is reported in version 4.6.2. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repository.

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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Disclosed in SVN commits.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
KDE:
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/4.4/kdenetwork/kget/ui/metalinkcreator/metalinker.cpp?r1=1227468&r2=1227467&pathrev=1227468
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/4.5/kdenetwork/kget/ui/metalinkcreator/metalinker.cpp?r1=1227469&r2=1227468&pathrev=1227469
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/4.6/kdenetwork/kget/ui/metalinkcreator/metalinker.cpp?r1=1227471&r2=1227470&pathrev=1227471

Launchpad Bug#757526:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdenetwork/+bug/757526

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