Advisories » MGASA-2019-0083

Updated kauth packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 14 Feb 2019
Modification date: 14 Feb 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6

Description

KAuth allows to pass parameters with arbitrary types to helpers running as
root over DBus. Certain types can cause crashes and trigger decoding
arbitrary images with dynamically loaded plugins.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24334
• https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20190209-1.txt

SRPMS

6/core

• kauth-5.42.0-1.1.mga6