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Debian DSA-4116-1 : plasma-workspace - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 106874

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Krzysztof Sieluzycki discovered that the notifier for removable devices in the KDE Plasma workspace performed insufficient sanitisation of FAT/VFAT volume labels, which could result in the execution of arbitrary shell commands if a removable device with a malformed disk label is mounted.

Solution

Upgrade the plasma-workspace packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 4:5.8.6-2.1+deb9u1.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1dd18931

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/plasma-workspace

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4116

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 106874

File Name: debian_DSA-4116.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/20/2018

Updated: 11/13/2018

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:plasma-workspace, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-6791

DSA: 4116