Mageia: 2019-0278 Moderate: KConfig Malformed Desktop File Issue
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September 15, 2019
Updated kconfig packages fix security vulnerability: Dominik Penner discovered that KConfig supported a feature to define shell command execution in .desktop files
Summary
Updated kconfig packages fix security vulnerability:
Dominik Penner discovered that KConfig supported a feature to define shell
command execution in .desktop files. If a user is provided with a malformed
.desktop file (e.g. if it's embedded into a downloaded archive and it gets
opened in a file browser) arbitrary commands could get executed
(CVE-2019-14744).
This update fixes the security issue by removing the shell command feature.
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25250
- https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20190807-1.txt
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2019/msg00142.html
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14744
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/kconfig-5.42.0-1.1.mga6
- 7/core/kconfig-5.57.0-1.1.mga7
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Publication date: 15 Sep 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0278.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-14744
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