Mageia alert MGASA-2017-0473 (kdebase4-runtime)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2017-0473: Updated kdebase4-runtime packages fix security vulnerability 
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Sun, 31 Dec 2017 01:10:56 +0100
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MGASA-2017-0473 - Updated kdebase4-runtime packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 31 Dec 2017
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0473.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2016-7787

Description:
A user could sneak an unicode string terminator in the kdesu invocation,
which could hide the fact that more commands could be executed
(CVE-2016-7787).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19488
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/29/7
- https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7787

SRPMS:
- 5/core/kdebase4-runtime-4.14.3-5.1.mga5