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FreeBSD : kio-extras -- HTML Thumbnailer automatic remote file access (1460aa25-e6ab-11e8-a733-e0d55e2a8bf9)

high Nessus Plugin ID 118900

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Synopsis

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

Description

Albert Astals Cid reports :

Various KDE applications share a plugin system to create thumbnails of various file types for displaying in file managers, file dialogs, etc.
kio-extras contains a thumbnailer plugin for HTML files.

The HTML thumbnailer was incorrectly accessing some content of remote URLs listed in HTML files. This meant that the owners of the servers referred in HTML files in your system could have seen in their access logs your IP address every time the thumbnailer tried to create the thumbnail.

The HTML thumbnailer has been removed in upcoming KDE Applications 18.12.0 because it was actually not creating thumbnails for files at all.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20181012-1.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?637640c9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 118900

File Name: freebsd_pkg_1460aa25e6ab11e8a733e0d55e2a8bf9.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 11/13/2018

Updated: 4/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:kio-extras, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19120