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Fedora 25 : kdelibs3 (2017-4f4eef4791)

high Nessus Plugin ID 97678

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This kdelibs3 (KDE 3 compatibility libraries) update fixes the security issues :

 - CVE-2016-6232 (karchive): Extraction of tar files possible to arbitrary system locations

 - CVE-2017-6410 (kio): Information Leak when accessing https when using a malicious PAC file

for the KDE 3 compatibility libraries. (Security updates for KDE Frameworks 5 (kf5-karchive resp. kf5-kio) and for the KDE 4 compatibility libraries (kdelibs 4) have already been submitted.)

In addition, the KDE 3 compatibility version of KCrash was modified to use the DrKonqi from Plasma 5 rather than from kde-runtime 4. (The original KDE 3 DrKonqi was already dropped years ago.) The kde-runtime 4 DrKonqi is not installed by default and will be removed entirely in future Fedora versions, the Plasma 5 version of DrKonqi can also be used for legacy applications.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected kdelibs3 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-4f4eef4791

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97678

File Name: fedora_2017-4f4eef4791.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/13/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kdelibs3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/2/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6232, CVE-2017-6410