CVE-2003-1478: kde konqueror

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2003-1478 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in kde konqueror. EPSS estimates a 4.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 3 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 24-10-2007
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 08-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Konqueror in KDE 3.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (core dump) via a web page that begins with a "xFFxFE" byte sequence and a large number of CRLF sequences, as demonstrated using freeze.htm.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.