Debian Security Advisory DSA 3849-1 (kde4libs - security update)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in kde4libs, the core libraries for all KDE 4 applications. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2017-6410 Itzik Kotler, Yonatan Fridburg and Amit Klein of Safebreach Labs reported that URLs are not sanitiz...

FreeBSD : kauth: Local privilege escalation (0baee383-356c-11e7-b9a9-50e549ebab6c)

Albert Astals Cid reports : KAuth contains a logic flaw in which the service invoking dbus is not properly checked. This allows spoofing the identity of the caller and with some carefully crafted calls can lead to gaining root from an unprivileged account. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

kauth: Local privilege escalation

Albert Astals Cid reports: KAuth contains a logic flaw in which the service invoking dbus is not properly checked. This allows spoofing the identity of the caller and with some carefully crafted calls can lead to gaining root from an unprivileged account...

[ASA-201705-12] kauth: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201705-12 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2017-05-10 CVE-ID : CVE-2017-8422 Package : kauth Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-269 Summary ======= The package kauth before version...

Fedora Update for kf5-kauth FEDORA-2016-cef912e3a4

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for kf5-kauth FEDORA-2016-4701636a74

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: kf5-kauth-5.24.0-1.fc23

KAuth is a framework to let applications perform actions as a privileged us er...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: kf5-kauth-5.24.0-1.fc24

KAuth is a framework to let applications perform actions as a privileged us er...

Debian DLA-76-1 : kde4libs security update

It was discovered that KAuth, part of kdelibs, uses polkit in a way that is prone to a race condition that may allow authorization bypass. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically...

Updated KDE 4 and related packages move to KDE 4.12.5

This KDE 4 update provides an upgrade to the last stable version of KDE Applications and Development Platform for the 4.12 series, and updates Plasma Workspaces to 4.11.12. This update fixes several security vulnerabilities - KMail/KIO POP3 SSL MITM Flaw CVE-2014-3494 - mga13545 - KAuth PID Reuse...

MGASA-2014-0432 Updated KDE 4 and related packages move to KDE 4.12.5

This KDE 4 update provides an upgrade to the last stable version of KDE Applications and Development Platform for the 4.12 series, and updates Plasma Workspaces to 4.11.12. This update fixes several security vulnerabilities - KMail/KIO POP3 SSL MITM Flaw CVE-2014-3494 - mga13545 - KAuth PID Reuse...

DLA-76-1 kde4libs - security update

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CVE-2014-5033

KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1 setuid process or 2 pkexec process, related to...

Race condition

KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1 setuid process or 2 pkexec process, related to...

CVE-2014-5033

CVE-2014-5033 affects KDE components: kdelibs prior to 4.14 and kauth prior to 5.1, where PolicyKit is accessed via D-Bus. A local race condition in PolkitUnixProcess/PolkitSubject could allow bypassing authorization, related to PID-reuse issues (and CVE-2013-4288). Public documents show mitigati...

CVE-2014-5033

KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1 setuid process or 2 pkexec process, related to...

CVE-2014-5033

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Debian DSA-3004-1 : kde4libs - security update

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that Kauth used Policykit insecurely by relying on the process ID. This could result in privilege escalation. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory...

DSA-3004-1 kde4libs - security update

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Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2304-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...