Description
Unspecified vulnerability in KDE Konqueror 3.5.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (failed assertion and application crash) via certain malformed HTML, as demonstrated by a document containing TEXTAREA, BUTTON, BR, BDO, PRE, FRAMESET, and A tags. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- KDE Konqueror 3.5.7 - Assert Denial of Service EDB-30444 · dos · Mar 5, 2007 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/25170.html
- 20070801 [BuHa-Security] DoS Vulnerability in Konqueror 3.5.7 mailing-list
- 25170 vdb-entry
- 42552 vdb-entry