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breach watch Ubuntu security notices October 01, 2026

USN-8857-1: KCoreAddons vulnerability

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It was discovered that KCoreAddons incorrectly handled shell argument quoting in KShell::quoteArgs. The parsing did not adequately handle shell metacharacters, which could lead to a shell escape. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands in applications that relied on this method to handle user input.

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