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RHEL 7 : kde-workspace (RHSA-2019:2141)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127682

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for kde-workspace, kde-settings, kdelibs, kmag, and virtuoso-opensource is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link (s) in the References section.

The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System. The kdelibs packages include core libraries for the K Desktop Environment.

The kde-workspace packages consist of components providing the KDE graphical desktop environment.

Security Fix(es) :

* kde-workspace: Missing sanitization of notifications allows to leak client IP address via IMG element (CVE-2018-6790)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3395ff0b

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2141

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-6790

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 127682

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2141.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 1/6/2020

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

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: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kcm_colors, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kde-settings, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kde-settings-ksplash, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kde-settings-minimal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kde-settings-plasma, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kde-settings-pulseaudio, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kde-style-oxygen, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kde-workspace, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kde-workspace-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kde-workspace-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kde-workspace-ksplash-themes, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kde-workspace-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdeclassic-cursor-theme, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs-apidocs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs-ktexteditor, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kgreeter-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:khotkeys, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:khotkeys-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kinfocenter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kmag, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kmag-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kmenuedit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ksysguard, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ksysguard-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ksysguardd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kwin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kwin-gles, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kwin-gles-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kwin-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libkworkspace, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:oxygen-cursor-themes, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:plasma-scriptengine-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:plasma-scriptengine-ruby, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-settings, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:virtuoso-opensource, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:virtuoso-opensource-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:virtuoso-opensource-utils, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/7/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-6790

RHSA: 2019:2141