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Fedora 28 Cantata Security Advisory: Insecure Mount Code Removal

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Calendar Grey July 6, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Cantata music application undergoes a security enhancement in Fedora 28, addressing vulnerabilities in the mounting process while significantly improving overall system safety.
Latest upstream release, omits some mounting code found to be insecure and not well tested.

Summary

Cantata is a graphical client for the music player daemon (MPD).

Features:

* Multiple MPD collections.

* Highly customisable layout.

* Songs grouped by album in play queue.

* Context view to show artist, album, and song information of current track.

* Simple tag editor.

* File organizer - use tags to organize files and folders.

* Ability to calculate ReplyGain tags.

* Dynamic playlists.

* Online services; Jamendo, Magnatune, SoundCloud, and Podcasts.

* Radio stream support - with the ability to search for streams via TuneIn

and ShoutCast.

* USB-Mass-Storage and MTP device support.

* Audio CD ripping and playback.

* Playback of non-MPD songs, via simple in-built HTTP server.

* MPRISv2 DBUS interface.

* Support for KDE global shortcuts (KDE builds), GNOME media keys, and generic

media keys (via Qxt support)

* Ubuntu/ambiance theme integration.

Latest upstream release, omits some mounting code found to be insecure and not

well tested.

* Wed Jun 27 2018 Rex Dieter - 2.3.1-1

- cantata-2.3.1

- include upstream commit that removes samba share mounting code

* Fri Apr 27 2018 Rex Dieter - 2.3.0-1

- cantata-2.3.0

[ 1 ] Bug #1595570 - CVE-2018-12562 cantata: Insufficient input validation in the 'mount.cifs.wrapper' script

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595570

[ 2 ] Bug #1595569 - CVE-2018-12561 cantata: Possible injection of additional mount options by manipulating the domain parameters of the samba URL

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595569

[ 3 ] Bug #1595567 - CVE-2018-12560 cantata: Directory traversal in the D-Bus service of cantata-mounter

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595567

[ 4 ] Bug #1595566 - CVE-2018-12559 cantata: Directory traversal due to insufficient mount target check in mounter.cpp

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595566

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-d1f6c8957f' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 2.3.1
Release: 1.fc28
Summary: Music Player Daemon (MPD) graphical client

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