MGASA-2014-0480 Updated kdebase4-workspace packages fix security vulnerability and various bugs

This update fixes a security vulnerability in the KDE workspace configuration module for setting the date and time CVE-2014-8651, mga14578, and fixes some additional issues: - fix foreground color for GTK2 menus bko127861, - improve contrast for rendering checkbox marks, arrows, etc. bko337433, -...

Updated kdebase4-workspace packages fix security vulnerability and various bugs

This update fixes a security vulnerability in the KDE workspace configuration module for setting the date and time CVE-2014-8651, mga14578, and fixes some additional issues: - fix foreground color for GTK2 menus bko127861, - improve contrast for rendering checkbox marks, arrows, etc. bko337433,...

Fedora Update for kde-workspace FEDORA-2014-14865

Check the version of kde-workspace SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.868490";...

FreeBSD : kde-workspace -- privilege escalation (dafa13a8-6e9b-11e4-8ef7-5453ed2e2b49)

David Edmundson reports : KDE workspace configuration module for setting the date and time has a helper program which runs as root for performing actions. This is secured with polkit. This helper takes the name of the ntp utility to run as an argument. This allows a hacker to run any arbitrary...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: kde-workspace-4.11.14-1.fc19

The KDE Workspace consists of what is the desktop of the KDE Desktop Environment. This package contains: khotkeys a hotkey daemon klipper a cut & paste history utility kmenuedit the menu editor krunner a command run interface kwin the window manager of KDE plasma the KDE desktop, panels and widge...

Fedora 21 : kde-workspace-4.11.14-1.fc21 (2014-14895)

New security fix release, privilege escalation issue, see also https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20141106-1.txt Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

Fedora 19 : kde-workspace-4.11.14-1.fc19 (2014-14865)

New security fix release, privilege escalation issue, see also https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20141106-1.txt Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

Fedora 20 : kde-workspace-4.11.14-1.fc20 (2014-14813)

New security fix release, privilege escalation issue, see also https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20141106-1.txt Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: kde-workspace-4.11.14-1.fc21

The KDE Workspace consists of what is the desktop of the KDE Desktop Environment. This package contains: khotkeys a hotkey daemon klipper a cut & paste history utility kmenuedit the menu editor krunner a command run interface kwin the window manager of KDE plasma the KDE desktop, panels and widge...

Fedora Update for kde-workspace FEDORA-2014-14813

Check the version of kde-workspace SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.868486";...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: kde-workspace-4.11.14-1.fc20

The KDE Workspace consists of what is the desktop of the KDE Desktop Environment. This package contains: khotkeys a hotkey daemon klipper a cut & paste history utility kmenuedit the menu editor krunner a command run interface kwin the window manager of KDE plasma the KDE desktop, panels and widge...

MGASA-2014-0445 Updated kdebase4-workspace packages fix security vulnerability and various bugs

This update fixes a security vulnerability in the KDE workspace configuration module for setting the date and time CVE-2014-8651, mga14487, and fixes some additional issues: - fix kcm botching unrelated user settings mga3310, bko254430, - do not popup during initialization 0 B Removable media...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2402-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : kde-workspace vulnerabilities (USN-2402-1)

David Edmundson discovered that the KDE Clock KCM policykit helper did not properly guard against untrusted input. Under certain circumstances, a process running under the user's session could exploit this to run programs as the administrator. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

CVE-2014-8651

The KDE Clock KCM policykit helper in kde-workspace before 4.11.14 and plasma-desktop before 5.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted ntpUtility ntp utility name argument...

CVE-2013-4132

KDE-Workspace 4.10.5 and earlier does not properly handle the return value of the glibc 2.17 crypt and pwencrypt functions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and crash via 1 an invalid salt or a 2 DES or 3 MD5 encrypted password, when FIPS-140 is...

CVE-2013-4132

KDE-Workspace 4.10.5 and earlier does not properly handle the return value of the glibc 2.17 crypt and pwencrypt functions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and crash via 1 an invalid salt or a 2 DES or 3 MD5 encrypted password, when FIPS-140 is...

CVE-2013-4132

CVE-2013-4132 affects KDE Workspace kdebase4-workspace 4.10.5 and earlier. The issue is a NULL pointer dereference in the crypt()/pw_encrypt paths when handling certain salts or DES/MD5 passwords, exploitable to cause a denial of service (crash) in KDM or KCheckPass when FIPS-140 is enabled. Publ...

Fedora Update for kde-workspace FEDORA-2013-13098

Check for the Version of kde-workspace OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for kde-workspace FEDORA-2013-13098 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

Fedora Update for kde-workspace FEDORA-2013-13098

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...