KDE kauth and kdelibs Logic Flaw Lets Local Users Obtain Root Privileges(CVE-2017-8422)

This document describes a generic root exploit against kde. The exploit is achieved by abusing a logic flaw within the KAuth framework which is present in kde4 org.kde.auth and kde5 org.kde.kf5auth. It is possible to spoof what KAuth calls callerID's which are indeed D-Bus unique names of the...