CVE-2012-4512: Kde

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 11.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The CSS parser (khtml/css/cssparser.cpp) in Konqueror in KDE 4.7.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly read memory via a crafted font face source, related to "type confusion."

Affected products

• Kde Kde: version 4.7.3 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 6.3 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only

Published 2020-02-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.