Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-6791  

When a vfat thumbdrive which contains `` or $() in its volume label is plugged and mounted trough the device notifier, it's interpreted as a shell command, leaving a possibility of arbitrary commands execution. an example of offending volume label is "$(touch b)" which will create a file called b in the home folder.

Severity High

Remote No

Type Arbitrary command execution

Description

When a vfat thumbdrive which contains `` or $() in its volume label is plugged and mounted trough the device notifier, it's interpreted as a shell command, leaving a possibility of arbitrary commands execution. an example of offending volume label is "$(touch b)" which will create a file called b in the home folder.

AVG-607 plasma-workspace 5.11.5-2 5.12.0-1 High Fixed

09 Feb 2018 ASA-201802-4 AVG-607 plasma-workspace High arbitrary command execution

https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20180208-2.txt

workaround: Mount removable devices with Dolphin instead of the device notifier.