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Slackware 15.0: SSA-2024-240-02 Moderate: Plasma-Workspace Access Issue

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Calendar Grey August 27, 2024
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated plasma-workspace versions for Slackware 15.0 address a critical vulnerability in the session manager. Enhance your defense with this upgrade.
New plasma-workspace packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/plasma-workspace-5.23.5-i586-4_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update patches a security issue: ksmserver: Unauthorized users can access session manager. Thanks to pbslxw for the heads-up. For more information, see: https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20240531-1.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36041 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update slackware session manager plasma-workspace

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/plasma-workspace-5.23.5-i586-4_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/plasma-workspace-5.23.5-x86_64-4_slack15.0.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 75db0fae92f3534d307a0c3493485b42 plasma-workspace-5.23.5-i586-4_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 33c25145a5e9c3f68784688f1a823cda plasma-workspace-5.23.5-x86_64-4_slack15.0.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update slackware session manager plasma-workspace

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg plasma-workspace-5.23.5-i586-4_slack15.0.txz

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