Fedora 24: kdelibs3 Security Update
Summary
Libraries for KDE 3:
KDE Libraries included: kdecore (KDE core library), kdeui (user interface),
kfm (file manager), khtmlw (HTML widget), kio (Input/Output, networking),
kspell (spelling checker), jscript (javascript), kab (addressbook),
kimgio (image manipulation).
Update Information:
This kdelibs3 (KDE 3 compatibility libraries) update fixes the security issues: * CVE-2016-6232 (karchive): Extraction of tar files possible to arbitrary system locations * CVE-2017-6410 (kio): Information Leak when accessing https when using a malicious PAC file for the KDE 3 compatibility libraries. (Security updates for KDE Frameworks 5 (kf5-karchive resp. kf5-kio) and for the KDE 4 compatibility libraries (kdelibs 4) have already been submitted.) In addition, the KDE 3 compatibility version of KCrash was modified to use the DrKonqi from Plasma 5 rather than from kde-runtime 4. (The original KDE 3 DrKonqi was already dropped years ago.) The kde-runtime 4 DrKonqi is not installed by default and will be removed entirely in future Fedora versions, the Plasma 5 version of DrKonqi can also be used for legacy applications.
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1427808 - CVE-2017-6410 kf5-kio, kdelibs: Information Leak when accessing https when using a malicious PAC file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1427808 [ 2 ] Bug #1357410 - CVE-2016-6232 kf5-karchive: Extraction of tar files possible to arbitrary system locations https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1357410
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade kdelibs3' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html