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Debian Jessie DSA-3849-1 Critical: kde4libs Access Threats

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Calendar Grey May 12, 2017
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4567-1 highlights vulnerabilities in libexample affecting data integrity and unauthorized access. Find out more.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in kde4libs, the core libraries for all KDE 4 applications

Summary

CVE-2017-6410

Itzik Kotler, Yonatan Fridburg and Amit Klein of Safebreach Labs
reported that URLs are not sanitized before passing them to
FindProxyForURL, potentially allowing a remote attacker to obtain
sensitive information via a crafted PAC file.

CVE-2017-8422

Sebastian Krahmer from SUSE discovered that the KAuth framework
contains a logic flaw in which the service invoking dbus is not
properly checked. This flaw allows spoofing the identity of the
caller and gaining root privileges from an unprivileged account.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 4:4.14.2-5+deb8u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 4:4.14.26-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your kde4libs packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: kde4libs
CVE ID: CVE-2017-6410 CVE-2017-8422

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