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Red Hat: RHSA-2020-2833-01 Important: kdelibs Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey July 7, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
KDE kdelibs patch for Fedora distributions resolves a significant vulnerability that permits code execution upon user engagement.
An update for kdelibs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat code execution important kdelibs desktop environment

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.6):
Source: kdelibs-4.14.8-8.el7_6.src.rpm
x86_64: kdelibs-4.14.8-8.el7_6.i686.rpm kdelibs-4.14.8-8.el7_6.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-common-4.14.8-8.el7_6.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-8.el7_6.i686.rpm kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-8.el7_6.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-8.el7_6.i686.rpm kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-8.el7_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.6):
noarch: kdelibs-apidocs-4.14.8-8.el7_6.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-8.el7_6.i686.rpm kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-8.el7_6.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-8.el7_6.i686.rpm kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-8.el7_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6):
Source: kdelibs-4.14.8-8.el7_6.src.rpm
ppc64le: kdelibs-4.14.8-8.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm kdelibs-common-4.14.8-8.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-8.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-8.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-8.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: kdelibs-4.14.8-8.el7_6.i686.rpm kdelibs-4.14.8-8.el7_6.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-common-4.14.8-8.el7_6.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-8.el7_6.i686.rpm kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-8.el7_6.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-8.el7_6.i686.rpm kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-8.el7_6.x86_64.rpm kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-8.el7_6.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:2833-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2833
Issue date: 2020-07-07

Topic

An update for kdelibs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6Extended Update Support.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 Red Hat code execution important kdelibs desktop environment

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) - ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch, ppc64, s390x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch, s390x

Bugs Fixed

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

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