[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: kwebkitpart-1.3.4-5.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-15150
2014-11-15 07:39:25
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Name        : kwebkitpart
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 1.3.4
Release     : 5.fc21
URL         : https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/base/kwebkitpart
Summary     : A KPart based on QtWebKit
Description :
KWebKitPart is a web browser component for KDE (KPart)
based on (Qt)WebKit. You can use it for example for
browsing the web in Konqueror.

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Update Information:

Sanitize input to disallow javascript being executed in the context of the referenced hostname. See also https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20141113-1.txt
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1164293 - CVE-2014-8600 kwebkitpart, kde-runtime: Insufficient Input Validation By IO Slaves and Webkit Part
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164293
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update kwebkitpart' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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