Security Advisory

CVE-2011-1586

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-04-27 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 22:28:42
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the KGetMetalink::File::isValidNameAttr function in ui/metalinkcreator/metalinker.cpp in KGet in KDE SC 4.6.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the name attribute of a file element in a metalink file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-1000.