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Critical Risk of Code Execution in kdelibs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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Calendar Grey September 3, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle has released a significant security update concerning Oracle Linux and its database tools. Urgent patch accessible immediately.
An update for kdelibs and kde-setting 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.
Security Fix(es):
* kdelibs: malicious desktop files and configuration files lead to code execution with minimal user interaction (CVE-2019-14744)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
* kde.csh profile file contains bourne-shell code (BZ#1740042)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory code execution security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important kdelibs kde-settings

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14744 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: kde-settings-19-23.10.el7_7.src.rpm kdelibs-4.14.8-11.el7_7.src.rpm
noarch: kde-settings-19-23.10.el7_7.noarch.rpm kde-settings-ksplash-19-23.10.el7_7.noarch.rpm kde-settings-plasma-19-23.10.el7_7.noarch.rpm kde-settings-pulseaudio-19-23.10.el7_7.noarch.rpm qt-settings-19-23.10.el7_7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kdelibs-4.14.8-11.el7_7.i686.rpm kdelibs-4.14.8-11.el7_7.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-common-4.14.8-11.el7_7.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-11.el7_7.i686.rpm kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-11.el7_7.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-11.el7_7.i686.rpm kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-11.el7_7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
noarch: kde-settings-minimal-19-23.10.el7_7.noarch.rpm kdelibs-apidocs-4.14.8-11.el7_7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-11.el7_7.i686.rpm kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-11.el7_7.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-11.el7_7.i686.rpm kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-11.el7_7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: kde-settings-19-23.10.el7_7.src.rpm kdelibs-4.14.8-11.el7_7.src.rpm
noarch: kde-settings-19-23.10.el7_7.noarch.rpm qt-settings-19-23.10.el7_7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kdelibs-4.14.8-11.el7_7.i686.rpm kdelibs-4.14.8-11.el7_7.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-common-4.14.8-11.el7_7.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
important
Lowest
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Medium
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2606-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2606
Issue date: 2019-09-03

Topic

An update for kdelibs and kde-setting is now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory code execution security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important kdelibs kde-settings

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, s390x

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

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

Bugs Fixed

1740042 - kde.csh profile file contains bourne-shell code [rhel-7.7.z]

1740138 - CVE-2019-14744 kdelibs: malicious desktop files and configuration files lead to code execution with minimal user interaction

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