CVE-2012-4512

HIGH

KDE 4.7.3 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

The CSS parser (khtml/css/cssparser.cpp) in Konqueror in KDE 4.7.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly read memory via a crafted font face source, related to "type confusion."

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP

doslinux

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/22406

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (11)

[Broken Link, Third Party Advisory] http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-11/0005.html

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] http://em386.blogspot.com/2010/12/webkit-css-type-confusion.html

[Broken Link, Vendor Advisory] http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=a872c8a969a8bd3706253d6ba24088e4f07f3352

[Third Party Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1416.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1418.html

[Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/51097

[Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/51145

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.nth-dimension.org.uk/pub/NDSA20121010.txt.asc

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/11/11

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/30/6

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027709

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0998

EPSS Percentile 93.1%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-843

Status published

Products (5)

kde/kde 4.7.3

redhat/enterprise_linux 6.0

redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 6.0

redhat/enterprise_linux_server_eus 6.3

redhat/enterprise_linux_workstation 6.0

Published Feb 08, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026