Advisories » MGASA-2019-0278

Updated kconfig packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 15 Sep 2019
Modification date: 15 Sep 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6 , 7
CVE: CVE-2019-14744

Description

Updated kconfig packages fix security vulnerability:

Dominik Penner discovered that KConfig supported a feature to define shell
command execution in .desktop files. If a user is provided with a malformed
.desktop file (e.g. if it's embedded into a downloaded archive and it gets
opened in a file browser) arbitrary commands could get executed
(CVE-2019-14744).

This update fixes the security issue by removing the shell command feature.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25250
• https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20190807-1.txt
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4494
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14744

SRPMS

7/core

• kconfig-5.57.0-1.1.mga7

6/core

• kconfig-5.42.0-1.1.mga6