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HistoryAug 21, 2006 - 12:00 a.m.

K-Meleon Concurrency-related Vulnerability

2006-08-2100:00:00
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The newest version of K-Meleon browser is affected to disclosed on Bugtraq recently.
When using test link http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ffoxdie3.html
browser crashed after a delay of some seconds. No user interaction was needed.

Affected versions:
Vulnerability has been confirmed in K-Meleon 1.0.1 in Windows 2000 SP4 fully patched.

Solution status:
No updated versions available from the vendor at the time of reporting.

Vendor status:
K-Meleon developers was contacted on 18th August 2006.

Credit:
This vulnerability was reported earlier in Firefox 1.5.0.6 by Michal Zalewski.
Juha-Matti Laurio confirmed this vulnerability in K-Meleon.

Timeline:
18-Aug-2006 - Vulnerability confirmed in K-Meleon
18-Aug-2006 - Vendor was contacted
18-Aug-2006 - Security companies and several CERT units contacted

Best regards,
Juha-Matti Laurio
Networksecurity.fi
http://www.networksecurity.fi/