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Fedora 25: 2017-c1cd67adc1 Critical: Plasma-Desktop Prompting Issue

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Calendar Grey February 22, 2017
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The recent KDE Plasma Desktop upgrade addresses concerns related to execution alerts on Fedora 25, improving overall safety measures.
it was found that KDE plasma does not honor the setting for prompting when executing executable files on the desktop

Summary

Plasma Desktop shell.

Update Information:

it was found that KDE plasma does not honor the setting for prompting when executing executable files on the desktop. This update resolves this issue.

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security advisory critical Fedora prompting issue plasma-desktop

Change Log

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[ 1 ] Bug #1421720 - plasma-desktop: Folder view does not honor kiorc settings [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421720

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade plasma-desktop' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: plasma-desktop
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 5.8.5
Release: 4.fc25
URL: Summary : Plasma Desktop shell

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security advisory critical Fedora prompting issue plasma-desktop

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