We have 5 patches to apply, but I'm not experienced enough with coding to determine what is needed to fix the CVE and what is just new features or bug fixes. There is talk in the KDE community that patches might be available for up to a year after release, but still waiting on confirmation.
Xenial is proving to be harder to patch due to it being Frameworks 5.18.
https:/ /launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +source/ kcoreaddons/ 5.18.0- 0ubuntu1
5.18.0 was tagged on Sat, 09 Jan 2016 09:49:38 +0000 (09:49 +0000) so according to this log:
https:/ /quickgit. kde.org/ ?p=kcoreaddons. git&a=history& h=5e13d2439dbf5 40fdc840f0b0ab5 b3ebf6642c6a& f=src%2Flib% 2Ftext% 2Fktexttohtml. cpp
We have 5 patches to apply, but I'm not experienced enough with coding to determine what is needed to fix the CVE and what is just new features or bug fixes. There is talk in the KDE community that patches might be available for up to a year after release, but still waiting on confirmation.