Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-3223-1

USN-3223-1: KDE-Libs vulnerability

Publication date

9 March 2017

Overview

KDE-Libs could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Releases

14.04 LTS 12.04

Packages

kde4libs - KDE 4 core applications and libraries

Details

Itzik Kotler, Yonatan Fridburg, and Amit Klein discovered that KDE-Libs
incorrectly handled certain PAC files. A remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to obtain sensitive information.

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
14.04 trusty	kdelibs5-plugins – 4:4.13.3-0ubuntu0.4
12.04 precise	kdelibs5-plugins – 4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.6

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References

CVE-2017-6410

CVE-2017-6410