Hello,

KDE Security Advisory 20111003-1 has been published and is available at
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20111003-1.txt.

This advisory concerns input validation failures affecting kdelibs and
Rekonq, due to using the default QLabel::AutoText behavior to display
externally-provided strings. This can be abused to show certificate
dialogs with spoofed Common Names (CNs), among other things.

The vulnerability and technical information about the exploit were
provided by Tim Brown of Nth Dimension. We thank them for their
responsible disclosure and cooperative handling of the matter.

The relevant CVEs are: CVE-2011-3365 KSSL and CVE-2011-3366 Rekonq

For those on binary distribution packages, your packages should already
be updated with the necessary patches.

Patches have been committed to the kdelibs Git repository in the
following commit IDs:

4.6 branch: 9ca2b26f 90607b28
4.7 branch: bd70d4e5 86622e4d
frameworks: bd70d4e5 86622e4d

(Note: the second commit for each branch above is a fix for kio_http
that fixes a similar issue, but with only very minor security implications.)

Patches can be retrieved by cloning the kdelibs repository at
git://anongit.kde.org/kdelibs.git and running "git show <commit-id>"

Patches have been committed to the Rekonq Git repository in the
following commit IDs:

85f454fa
526ce56f
d1711fff

These are three separate, but related patches.

Patches can be retrieved by cloning the rekonq repository at
git://anongit.kde.org/rekonq.git and running "git show <commit-id>"

Qt has also received a patch to warn users about sanitizing their QLabel
input:

https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/31f7ecbdcdbafbac5bbfa693e4d060757244941b

Thanks,
Jeff

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