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It has been reported that Konqueror may be prone to a denial of service vulnerability when processing malformed bitmap files. An attacker can cause a denial of service condition in the system by specifying a large value for a bitmap file to be loaded by the browser. This attack may lead to a denial of service condition in the system to the exhaustion of memory resources. This vulnerability has been tested on KDE 3.2.1 running on a Freebsd5.2-CURRENT system, however, it is possible that other versions running on different platforms are vulnerable as well. It is likely that this issue is present in a shared KDE bitmap processing component, presenting attack vectors in other applications that use the component. This vulnerability is similar to the issue described in BID 10097 (Microsoft Internet Explorer Bitmap File Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability).

It has been reported that Konqueror may be prone to a denial of service vulnerability when processing malformed bitmap files. An attacker can cause a denial of service condition in the system by specifying a large value for a bitmap file to be loaded by the browser. This attack may lead to a denial of service condition in the system to the exhaustion of memory resources. This vulnerability has been tested on KDE 3.2.1 running on a Freebsd5.2-CURRENT system, however, it is possible that other versions running on different platforms are vulnerable as well. It is likely that this issue is present in a shared KDE bitmap processing component, presenting attack vectors in other applications that use the component. This vulnerability is similar to the issue described in BID 10097 (Microsoft Internet Explorer Bitmap File Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability).