MGASA-2019-0278 - Updated kconfig packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 15 Sep 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0278.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6, 7
CVE: CVE-2019-14744

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:
- 6/core/kconfig-5.42.0-1.1.mga6
- 7/core/kconfig-5.57.0-1.1.mga7

Mageia 2019-0278: kconfig security update

Updated kconfig packages fix security vulnerability: Dominik Penner discovered that KConfig supported a feature to define shell command execution in .desktop files

Summary

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

Resolution

MGASA-2019-0278 - Updated kconfig packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 6/core/kconfig-5.42.0-1.1.mga6

- 7/core/kconfig-5.57.0-1.1.mga7

Severity
Publication date: 15 Sep 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0278.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-14744

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