Executive Summary

Summary
Title KDE-Libs vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3286-1 First vendor Publication 2017-05-15
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2017-05-15
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score N/A Attack Range N/A
Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

KDE-Libs could be made to run programs as an administrator if it received specially crafted input.

Software Description: - kde4libs: KDE 4 core applications and libraries

Details:

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that the KDE-Libs Kauth component incorrectly checked services invoking D-Bus. A local attacker could use this issue to gain root privileges.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
kdelibs5-plugins 4:4.13.3-0ubuntu0.5

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3286-1
CVE-2017-8422

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde4libs/4:4.13.3-0ubuntu0.5

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3286-1

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Date Informations
2017-05-17 13:22:24
  • Multiple Updates
2017-05-15 17:22:02
  • First insertion