vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3286-1 (CVE-2017-8422): KDE-Libs vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 10, 2017
Added
May 15, 2017
Modified
Apr 25, 2025

Description

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that the KDE-Libs Kauth component incorrectly
checked services invoking D-Bus. A local attacker could use this issue to
gain root privileges.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-kdelibs5-plugins
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