USN-1276-1: KDE Utilities vulnerability

21 November 2011

Ark could be made to remove files.

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Releases

Packages

  • kdeutils - KDE general-purpose utilities

Details

Tim Brown discovered that Ark did not properly perform input validation
when previewing archive files. If a user were tricked into opening a
crafted archive file, an attacker could remove files via directory
traversal.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make
all the necessary changes.

NOTE: In order to build KDE Utilities on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 10.10 and 11.04, it
was necessary to rebuild portions of the KDE point release updates.

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