CVE-2007-4229 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the KDE Konqueror browser by tricking users into viewing malformed HTML documents, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2007-4229?
CVE-2007-4229 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 8 Aug 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-4229?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Kde Konqueror.
How do I fix CVE-2007-4229?
No fix has been published for CVE-2007-4229 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2007-4229 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2007-4229 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r8pf-vgh2-gwhf.