USN-8829-1

Fabian Vogt discovered that Plasma Workspace did not properly authenticate local clients connecting to the session manager. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as another user.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / plasma-workspace

Package

Name: plasma-workspace
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/plasma-workspace?arch=source&distro=esm-apps-legacy%2Fxenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

4:5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1.1+esm1

Affected versions

4:5.*

4:5.4.2-0ubuntu1

4:5.4.3-0ubuntu1

4:5.5.4-0ubuntu1

4:5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1

4:5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability":  "Available with Ubuntu Pro with Legacy support add-on: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "binary_name":  "libkworkspace5-5",
            "binary_version":  "4:5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "libplasma-geolocation-interface5",
            "binary_version":  "4:5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "libtaskmanager5",
            "binary_version":  "4:5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "libweather-ion7",
            "binary_version":  "4:5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "plasma-workspace",
            "binary_version":  "4:5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "plasma-workspace-wayland",
            "binary_version":  "4:5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "sddm-theme-breeze",
            "binary_version":  "4:5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1.1+esm1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves":  [
        {
            "id":  "CVE-2024-36041",
            "severity":  [
                {
                    "score":  "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type":  "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score":  "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type":  "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score":  "medium",
                    "type":  "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem":  "Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-8829-1.json"