KDE Project Security Advisory: kauth: Insecure handling of arguments in helpers
Albert Astals Cid
aacid at kde.org
Sat Feb 9 11:13:05 GMT 2019
KDE Project Security Advisory
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Title: kauth: Insecure handling of arguments in helpers
Risk Rating: Medium
CVE: CVE-2019-7443
Versions: KDE Frameworks < 5.55.0
Date: 9 February 2019
Overview
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KAuth allows to pass parameters with arbitrary types to helpers running as root
over DBus. Certain types can cause crashes and trigger decoding arbitrary
images with dynamically loaded plugins.
Solution
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Update to kauth >= 5.55.0
Or apply the following patch to kauth:
https://cgit.kde.org/kauth.git/commit/?id=fc70fb0161c1b9144d26389434d34dd135cd3f4a
Credits
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Thanks to Fabian Vogt for the report and Albert Astals Cid for the fix.
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