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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4116-1 plasma-workspace -- security update

Date Reported:

16 Feb 2018

Affected Packages:

plasma-workspace

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-6791.

More information:

Krzysztof Sieluzycki discovered that the notifier for removable devices in the KDE Plasma workspace performed insufficient sanitisation of FAT/VFAT volume labels, which could result in the execution of arbitrary shell commands if a removable device with a malformed disk label is mounted.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 4:5.8.6-2.1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your plasma-workspace packages.

For the detailed security status of plasma-workspace please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/plasma-workspace