PT-2019-20242 · Kde · Kauth

Published 2019-02-14 · Updated 2019-02-14

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions KAuth (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows passing parameters of arbitrary types to helpers running as root over DBus. Certain types can cause crashes and trigger decoding of arbitrary images with dynamically loaded plugins.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

MGASA-2019-0083

Affected Products

Kauth

References · 4

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0083.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2019-0083 · Vendor Advisory
• https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20190209-1.txt · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24334 · Note