Malicious KDE theme can wipe out all your datalockwww.reddit.comcross-posted to: linuxfurs@pawb.sociallinux@lemmy.ml wisha ( @wisha@lemmy.ml ) KDE@lemmy.kde.social • edit-24 months ago message-square32fedilinkarrow-up159
arrow-up159external-linkMalicious KDE theme can wipe out all your datalockwww.reddit.com wisha ( @wisha@lemmy.ml ) KDE@lemmy.kde.social • edit-24 months ago message-square32fedilinkcross-posted to: linuxfurs@pawb.sociallinux@lemmy.ml
minus-square Sabata11792 ( @Sabata11792@kbin.social ) linkfedilink2•4 months agoReading the comments, looks like bad/old code mixed with a big update rather than anything malicious. I even ran into themes that killed my KDE last night. Had to purge the configs themes to get it working. Damn glad I didn’t wipe my entire setup.
minus-square Bro666 ( @Bro666@lemmy.kde.social ) linkfedilink6•4 months agoCorrect. The theme creator missed a variable that is not part of the Plasma environment anymore, and instead of running rm -Rf [something] it run rm -Rf 😬
Reading the comments, looks like bad/old code mixed with a big update rather than anything malicious. I even ran into themes that killed my KDE last night. Had to purge the configs themes to get it working. Damn glad I didn’t wipe my entire setup.
Correct. The theme creator missed a variable that is not part of the Plasma environment anymore, and instead of running
it run
😬