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FreeBSD : kf5-kauth -- Insecure handling of arguments in helpers (e8bcac84-2d5c-11e9-9a74-e0d55e2a8bf9)

high Nessus Plugin ID 122086

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Synopsis

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

Description

Albert Astals Cid reports :

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 plugin

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20190209-1.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?9ed2e4ca

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 122086

File Name: freebsd_pkg_e8bcac842d5c11e99a74e0d55e2a8bf9.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 2/11/2019

Updated: 2/12/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:kf5-kauth, 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: 2/10/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-7443