Updated kauth and kdelibs4 packages fix security vulnerability

2017-08-1701:32:05

Gentoo Foundation

advisories.mageia.org

7.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.2 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.3%

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Sebastian Krahmer from SUSE discovered that the KAuth framework contains a logic flaw in which the service invoking dbus is not properly checked. This flaw allows spoofing the identity of the caller and gaining root privileges from an unprivileged account (CVE-2017-8422).

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Mageia5noarchkauth< 5.5.0-1.1kauth-5.5.0-1.1.mga5
Mageia5noarchkdelibs4< 4.14.30-1.1kdelibs4-4.14.30-1.1.mga5