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TITLE:
rekonq Certificate Text Format Enforce Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46303

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-10-05

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in rekonq, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application not properly
setting the text format when displaying certificate information,
which can be exploited to spoof certificates via e.g. certificates
containing specially crafted RTF data in the Common Name (CN) field.

This is related to:
SA46157

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.7.80.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Tim Brown, Nth Dimension.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20111003-1.txt

https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/network/rekonq/repository/revisions/526ce56f7e6ae3c8a2aa1c96f4e87af9eaa305e1
https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/network/rekonq/repository/revisions/d1711fffc795d925d89980f56cd02b767e871c59
https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/network/rekonq/repository/revisions/85f454faabef5453c08eb5493d0afc63e23f650b

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