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  "id": "USN-4100-1",
  "summary": "kconfig, kde4libs vulnerabilities",
  "details": "It was discovered that KConfig and KDE libraries have a vulnerability\nwhere an attacker could hide malicious code under desktop and\nconfiguration files. (CVE-2019-14744)\n\nIt was discovered that KConfig allows remote attackers to write to\narbitrary files via a ../ in a filename in an archive file. (CVE-2016-6232)\n",
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  "related": [],
  "published": "2019-08-16T20:47:00Z",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:37Z",
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