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Fedora 22 kdelibs3 Moderate Advisory CVE-2015-7543 IPC Risk

Security fix for CVE-2015-7543 in kdelibs3 (the KDE 3 compatibility version of kdelibs): A temporary directory was being created insecurely using mktemp and mkdir, allowing an attacker to hijack the temporary directory and thus the inter-process communication (IPC). This update fixes the temporary directory creation to use the safe mkdtemp function instead.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-2f4b92ed2e 2015-12-30 17:33:17.150885 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : kdelibs3 Product : Fedora 22 Version : 3.5.10 Release : 71.fc22 URL : https://kde.org/ Summary : KDE 3 Libraries Description : Libraries for KDE 3: KDE Libraries included: kdecore (KDE core library), kdeui (user interface), kfm (file manager), khtmlw (HTML widget), kio (Input/Output, networking), kspell (spelling checker), jscript (javascript), kab (addressbook), kimgio (image manipulation). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Security fix for CVE-2015-7543 in kdelibs3 (the KDE 3 compatibility version of kdelibs): A temporary directory was being created insecurely using mktemp and mkdir, allowing an attacker to hijack the temporary directory and thus the inter-process communication (IPC). This update fixes the temporary directory creation to use the safe mkdtemp function instead. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1280543 - CVE-2015-7543 arts,kdelibs3: Use of mktemp(3) allows attacker to hijack the IPC https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1280543 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update kdelibs3' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages aresigned with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/package-announce.lists.fedoraproject.org/ . A recent security patch for kdelibs3 in Fedora 22 addresses CVE-2015-7543, which pertains to the problematic creation of insecure temporary directories.. Fedora Update, kdelibs3 Fix, IPC Security, Temporary Directory, CVE Fix. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Dec 30, 2015 Fedora