KDE Project Security Advisory ============================= Title: kauth: Local privilege escalation Risk Rating: High CVE: CVE-2017-8422 Versions: kauth < 5.34, kdelibs < 4.14.32 Date: 10 May 2017 Overview ======== 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. Solution ======== Update to kauth >= 5.34 and kdelibs >= 4.14.32 (when released) Or apply the following patches: kauth: https://commits.kde.org/kauth/df875f725293af53399f5146362eb158b4f9216a kdelibs: https://commits.kde.org/kdelibs/264e97625abe2e0334f97de17f6ffb52582888ab Credits ======= Thanks to Sebastian Krahmer from SUSE for the report and to Albert Astals Cid from KDE for the fix.