KDE Security Advisory: Secure Cookie Vulnerability

From: Dirk Mueller (muellerat_private)
Date: Tue Sep 10 2002 - 16:11:03 PDT

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    KDE Security Advisory: Secure Cookie Vulnerability
    Original Release Date: 2002-09-08
    URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20020908-1.txt
    
    0. References
    	None.
    
    1. Systems affected:
    	Konqueror in KDE 3.0, KDE 3.0.1 and KDE 3.0.2. 
    	KDE 2.2.2 and KDE 3.0.3 are NOT affected.
    
    2. Overview:
    	Konqueror fails to detect the "secure" flag in HTTP cookies and as 
    	a result may send secure cookies back to the originating site over 
    	an unencrypted network connection. 
          
    3. Impact:
    	A secure session that relies solely on secure cookies for 
    	identifying the session can possibly be hijacked, or an account 
    	which relies solely on secure cookies for logging on may be 
            compromised, by an attacker who manages to eavesdrop on the 
    	unencrypted network connection.
    
    4. Solution:
    	Upgrade to KDE 3.0.3 in which this problem is fixed or apply the
    	patch below.
    
    5. Patch:
            A patch for KDE 3.0, KDE 3.0.1 and KDE 3.0.2 is available from 
    	ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches :
    
    	1abff4a02381b5ca11273d02c6a5c6ca  post-3.0-kdelibs-kcookiejar.diff
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