KDE Plasma Workspace Command Execution Vulnerability

KDE Plasma Workspace is an umbrella term for all graphical environments developed by the KDE community and is part of KDE Software Compilation 4, the latest series of desktop environments. A security vulnerability exists in the soliduiserver/deviceserviceaction.cpp file in KDE Plasma Workspace...

CVE-2018-6791: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

An issue was discovered in soliduiserver/deviceserviceaction.cpp in KDE Plasma Workspace before 5.12.0. When a vfat thumbdrive that contains or $ in its volume label is plugged in and mounted through the device notifier, it's interpreted as a shell command, leading to a possibility of arbitrary...