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OPENSUSE-SU-2018:0397-1

Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2018-02-08 08:16 - Updated: 2018-02-08 08:16
Summary
Security update for plasma5-workspace
Severity
Important
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for plasma5-workspace
Description of the patch: This update for plasma5-workspace fixes security issues and bugs. The following vulnerabilities were fixed: - CVE-2018-6790: Desktop notifications could have been used to load arbitrary remote images into Plasma, allowing for client IP discovery (boo#1079429) - CVE-2018-6791: A specially crafted file system label may have allowed execution of arbitrary code (boo#1079751) The following bugs were fixed: - Plasma could freeze with certain notifications (boo#1013550)
Patchnames: openSUSE-2018-147
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
CVE-2018-6790
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Package Hub 12 SP3:drkonqi5-5.8.7-8.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Package Hub 12 SP3:plasma5-workspace-5.8.7-8.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Package Hub 12 SP3:plasma5-workspace-devel-5.8.7-8.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Package Hub 12 SP3:plasma5-workspace-lang-5.8.7-8.1.noarch —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Package Hub 12 SP3:plasma5-workspace-libs-5.8.7-8.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact moderate
CVE-2018-6791
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Recommended 5 products, the same list as for CVE-2018-6790
Threats
Impact important
References
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