[Secure-testing-team] Bug#856889: kio: CVE-2017-6410: Information Leak when accessing https when using a malicious PAC file

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: kio
Version: 5.22.0-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch upstream security

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for kio.

CVE-2017-6410[0]:
| kpac/script.cpp in KDE kio before 5.32 and kdelibs before 4.14.30 calls
| the PAC FindProxyForURL function with a full https URL (potentially
| including Basic Authentication credentials, a query string, or
| PATH_INFO), which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive
| information via a crafted PAC file.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6410
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6410
[1] https://commits.kde.org/kio/f9d0cb47cf94e209f6171ac0e8d774e68156a6e4
[2] https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20170228-1.txt

Regards,
Salvatore