SUSE CVE-2014-8651

The KDE Clock KCM policykit helper in kde-workspace before 4.11.14 and plasma-desktop before 5.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted ntpUtility ntp utility name argument...

KDE Systemsettings: Privilege escalation

Background KDE workspace configuration module for setting the date and time has a helper program which runs as root for performing actions. Description KDE Systemsettings fails to properly validate user input before passing it as argument in context of higher privilege. Impact A local attacker...

FreeBSD : kde-workspace -- privilege escalation (dafa13a8-6e9b-11e4-8ef7-5453ed2e2b49)

David Edmundson reports : KDE workspace configuration module for setting the date and time has a helper program which runs as root for performing actions. This is secured with polkit. This helper takes the name of the ntp utility to run as an argument. This allows a hacker to run any arbitrary...

kde-workspace -- privilege escalation

David Edmundson reports: KDE workspace configuration module for setting the date and time has a helper program which runs as root for performing actions. This is secured with polkit. This helper takes the name of the ntp utility to run as an argument. This allows a hacker to run any arbitrary...