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Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) In kdelibs

Description

The KDE HTML library (kdelibs), as used by Konqueror 3.5.5, does not properly parse HTML comments, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS protection schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within a comment in a title tag, a related issue to CVE-2007-0478.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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