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Posted on 09 August 2019
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-4494-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
August 09, 2019 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : kconfig
CVE ID : CVE-2019-14744
Dominik Penner discovered that KConfig, the KDE configuration settings
framework, 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. This update
removes this feature.
For the oldstable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed
in version 5.28.0-2+deb9u1.
For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.54.0-1+deb10u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your kconfig packages.
For the detailed security status of kconfig please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/kconfig
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
