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[DSA631] DSA-631-1 kdelibs

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-631-1 kdelibs

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Thiago Macieira discovered a vulnerability in the kioslave library,
which is part of kdelibs, which permits a remote attacker to execute
arbitrary FTP commands via an ftp:// URL that contains an URL-encoded
newline before the FTP command.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.2-13.woody.13.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your kdelibs3 package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-631
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 11827

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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