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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-27187: KPMCore: Root privilege escalation

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-27187: KPMCore: Root privilege escalation

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/26/2020
Created
11/04/2020
Added
11/03/2020
Modified
11/03/2020

Description

An issue was discovered in KDE Partition Manager 4.1.0 before 4.2.0. The kpmcore_externalcommand helper contains a logic flaw in which the service invoking D-Bus is not properly checked. An attacker on the local machine can replace /etc/fstab, and execute mount and other partitioning related commands, while KDE Partition Manager is running. the mount command can then be used to gain full root privileges.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-libs-kpmcore

References

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