CVE-2016-7787

NameCVE-2016-7787
DescriptionA maliciously crafted command line for kdesu can result in the user only seeing part of the commands that will actually get executed as super user.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs839865, 842498, 843790

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
kde-cli-tools (PTS)buster4:5.14.5-1fixed
bullseye4:5.20.5-2fixed
bookworm4:5.27.5.1-2fixed
sid, trixie4:5.27.10-1fixed
kde-runtime (PTS)buster4:17.08.3-2.1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
kde-cli-toolssource(unstable)4:5.8.0-1839865
kde-runtimesourcewheezy(not affected)
kde-runtimesource(unstable)4:16.08.3-2842498
kdesudosourcewheezy(not affected)
kdesudosource(unstable)(unfixed)843790

Notes

[jessie] - kde-runtime <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - kde-runtime <not-affected> (Unicode string terminator is not interpreted)
[stretch] - kdesudo <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - kdesudo <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - kdesudo <not-affected> (Unicode string terminator is not interpreted)
https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20160930-1.txt
https://github.com/KDE/kde-cli-tools/commit/5eda179a099ba68a20dc21dc0da63e85a565a171
For kde-cli-tools fixed in 5.7.5 upstream
kde-runtime's affected binary is /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu-distrib/kdesu
kdesudo's affected binary is /usr/bin/kdesudo

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