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Red Hat: RHSA-2019:2141-01 Low Severity: kde-workspace IP Leak

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The recent kde-workspace update on Red Hat fixes multiple minor bugs and a crucial security flaw linked to client IP address exposure. Details included.
An update for kde-workspace, kde-settings, kdelibs, kmag, and virtuoso-opensource is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The desktop must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.

Summary

The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System. The kdelibs packages include core libraries for the K Desktop Environment.
The kde-workspace packages consist of components providing the KDE graphical desktop environment.
Security Fix(es):
* kde-workspace: Missing sanitization of notifications allows to leak client IP address via IMG element (CVE-2018-6790)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat bug fix kde-workspace IP leak

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6790 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: kde-settings-19-23.9.el7.src.rpm kde-workspace-4.11.19-13.el7.src.rpm kdelibs-4.14.8-10.el7.src.rpm kmag-4.10.5-4.el7.src.rpm virtuoso-opensource-6.1.6-7.el7.src.rpm
noarch: kde-settings-19-23.9.el7.noarch.rpm kde-settings-ksplash-19-23.9.el7.noarch.rpm kde-settings-plasma-19-23.9.el7.noarch.rpm kde-settings-pulseaudio-19-23.9.el7.noarch.rpm qt-settings-19-23.9.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kcm_colors-4.11.19-13.el7.x86_64.rpm kde-style-oxygen-4.11.19-13.el7.i686.rpm kde-style-oxygen-4.11.19-13.el7.x86_64.rpm kde-workspace-4.11.19-13.el7.x86_64.rpm kde-workspace-debuginfo-4.11.19-13.el7.i686.rpm kde-workspace-debuginfo-4.11.19-13.el7.x86_64.rpm kde-workspace-libs-4.11.19-13.el7.i686.rpm kde-workspace-libs-4.11.19-13.el7.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-4.14.8-10.el7.i686.rpm kdelibs-4.14.8-10.el7.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-common-4.14.8-10.el7.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-10.el7.i686.rpm kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-10.el7.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-10.el7.i686.rpm kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-10.el7.x86_64.rpm kgreeter-plugins-4.11.19-13.el7.x86_64.rpm khotkeys-4.11.19-13.el7.x86_64.rpm khotkeys-libs-4.11.19-13.el7.i686.rpm khotkeys-libs-4.11.19-13.el7.x86_64.rpm kinfocenter-4.11.19-13.el7.x86_64.rpm kmag-4.10.5-4.el7.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2141-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2141
Issue date: 2019-08-06

Topic

An update for kde-workspace, kde-settings, kdelibs, kmag, andvirtuoso-opensource is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat bug fix kde-workspace IP leak

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1543454 - CVE-2018-6790 kde-workspace: Missing sanitization of notifications allows to leak client IP address via IMG element

1579764 - Running 'sudo -s' gives 'error': mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/user/.local’: Permission denied

1611762 - ksysguardd: "internal buffer too small to read /proc/cpuinfo" when running with many CPUs

1619362 - backport KDE commit to deal with mouse pointer visibility issue

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