KDE Plasma Workspaces: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background

KDE Plasma workspace is a widget based desktop environment designed to be fast and efficient.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in KDE Plasma Workspaces. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Impact

An attacker could execute arbitrary commands via specially crafted thumb drive’s volume labels or obtain sensitive information via specially crafted notifications.

Workaround

Users should mount removable devices with Dolphin instead of the device notifier.

Users should disable notifications.

Resolution

All KDE Plasma Workspace users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
 ">=kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.11.5-r1"