Authentication Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kde4libs (opens in a new tab)
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- published17 May 2017
- disclosed17 May 2017
Introduced: 17 May 2017
CVE-2017-8422 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kde4libs package and not the kde4libs package as distributed by Debian.
KDE kdelibs before 4.14.32 and KAuth before 5.34 allow local users to gain root privileges by spoofing a callerID and leveraging a privileged helper app.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8422
- https://cgit.kde.org/kauth.git/commit/?id=df875f725293af53399f5146362eb158b4f9216a
- https://cgit.kde.org/kdelibs.git/commit/?id=264e97625abe2e0334f97de17f6ffb52582888ab
- https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20170510-1.txt
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3849
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42053/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-29
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/10/3
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449647
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1264
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98412
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038480
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-8422