RHSA-2019:2141 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: kde-workspace security and bug fix update

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · August 6, 2019

Updated · June 27, 2026

Topic

An update for kde-workspace, kde-settings, kdelibs, kmag, and virtuoso-opensource is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System. The kdelibs packages include core libraries for the K Desktop Environment.

The kde-workspace packages consist of components providing the KDE graphical desktop environment.

Security Fix(es):

  • kde-workspace: Missing sanitization of notifications allows to leak client IP address via IMG element (CVE-2018-6790)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2019:2141 — Red Hat Security Advisory: kde-workspace security and bug fix update | PulseLinux