USN-3042-1: KDE-Libs vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3042-1

26th July, 2016

kde4libs vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 15.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

KDE-Libs could be made to overwrite files.

Software description

• kde4libs - KDE 4 core applications and libraries

Details

Andreas Cord-Landwehr discovered that KDE-Libs incorrectly handled
extracting certain archives. If a user were tricked into extracting a
specially-crafted archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to
overwrite arbitrary files out of the extraction directory.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10:

libkdecore5 4:4.14.13-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

libkdecore5 4:4.13.3-0ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

libkdecore5 4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.5

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.

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

References

CVE-2016-6232

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/2a5810Q