MGASA-2018-0477 - Updated kio-extras packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 06 Dec 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0477.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2018-19120

The HTML thumbnailer was incorrectly accessing some content of remote
URLs listed in HTML files. This meant that the owners of the serversreferred in HTML files in your system could have seen in their access
logs your IP address every time the thumbnailer tried to create the
thumbnail (CVE-2018-19120).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23868
- - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/CWRCGXLPJHM4OFD66BINH2FIMYHRCRKF/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19120

SRPMS:
- 6/core/kio-extras-17.12.2-4.1.mga6

Mageia 2018-0477: kio-extras security update

The HTML thumbnailer was incorrectly accessing some content of remote URLs listed in HTML files

Summary

The HTML thumbnailer was incorrectly accessing some content of remote URLs listed in HTML files. This meant that the owners of the serversreferred in HTML files in your system could have seen in their access logs your IP address every time the thumbnailer tried to create the thumbnail (CVE-2018-19120).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23868

- - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/CWRCGXLPJHM4OFD66BINH2FIMYHRCRKF/

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19120

Resolution

MGASA-2018-0477 - Updated kio-extras packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 6/core/kio-extras-17.12.2-4.1.mga6

Severity
Publication date: 06 Dec 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0477.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-19120

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