Low: kde-workspace security and bug fix update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-6790   CVE-2018-6790   CVE-2018-6790  

Synopsis

Low: kde-workspace security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

An update for kde-workspace, kde-settings, kdelibs, kmag, and virtuoso-opensource is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System. The kdelibs packages include core libraries for the K Desktop Environment.

The kde-workspace packages consist of components providing the KDE graphical desktop environment.

Security Fix(es):

  • kde-workspace: Missing sanitization of notifications allows to leak client IP address via IMG element (CVE-2018-6790)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The desktop must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 1543454 - CVE-2018-6790 kde-workspace: Missing sanitization of notifications allows to leak client IP address via IMG element
  • BZ - 1579764 - Running 'sudo -s' gives 'error': mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/user/.local’: Permission denied
  • BZ - 1611762 - ksysguardd: "internal buffer too small to read /proc/cpuinfo" when running with many CPUs
  • BZ - 1619362 - backport KDE commit to deal with mouse pointer visibility issue

CVEs

References