CVE-2012-4515

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-11-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in khtml/rendering/render_replaced.cpp in Konqueror in KDE 4.7.3, when the context menu is shown, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by accessing an iframe when it is being updated.

Affected products

Kde: 4.7.3

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-11/0005.html
http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=4f2eb356f1c23444fff2cfe0a7ae10efe303d6d8
http://secunia.com/advisories/51097
http://secunia.com/advisories/51145
http://www.nth-dimension.org.uk/pub/NDSA20121010.txt.asc
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/11/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/30/6
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-11/0005.html
http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=4f2eb356f1c23444fff2cfe0a7ae10efe303d6d8
http://secunia.com/advisories/51097
http://secunia.com/advisories/51145
http://www.nth-dimension.org.uk/pub/NDSA20121010.txt.asc

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