MGASA-2018-0477

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    MGASA-2018-0477

    Published: 6 Dec 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-19120

    Summary: Updated kio-extras packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: The HTML thumbnailer was incorrectly accessing some content of remote URLs listed in HTML files. This meant that the owners of the servers referred in HTML files in your system could have seen in their access logs your IP address every time the thumbnailer tried to create the thumbnail (CVE-2018-19120).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0477.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23868, https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20181012-1.txt, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/CWRCGXLPJHM4OFD66BINH2FIMYHRCRKF/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: kio-extras

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/kio-extras?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -17.12.2-4.1.mga6

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High