CVE-2017-8422

Published: May 17, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

KDE kdelibs before 4.14.32 and KAuth before 5.34 allow local users to gain root privileges by spoofing a callerID and leveraging a privileged helper app.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

1038480

vdb-entry

x_refsource_SECTRACK

42053

exploit

x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20170510-1.txt

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449647

x_refsource_CONFIRM

98412

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

GLSA-201706-29

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_GENTOO

https://cgit.kde.org/kdelibs.git/commit/?id=264e97625abe2e0334f97de17f6ffb52582888ab

x_refsource_CONFIRM

DSA-3849

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_DEBIAN

https://cgit.kde.org/kauth.git/commit/?id=df875f725293af53399f5146362eb158b4f9216a

x_refsource_CONFIRM

[oss-security] 20170510 generic kde LPE

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

RHSA-2017:1264

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

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CVE-2017-8422

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