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Fedora 24: Kdelibs Critical Threat Local Privilege Escalation Update

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Calendar Grey May 17, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Kdelibs security patch resolves a local privilege elevation vulnerability on Fedora 24. Update now to improve safety.
security fix for CVE-2017-8422

Summary

Libraries for KDE 4.

security fix for CVE-2017-8422.

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

[ 1 ] Bug #1449649 - CVE-2017-8422 kdelibs: kauth: service invoking dbus is not properly checked and allows local privilege escalation [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449649

su -c 'dnf upgrade kdelibs' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 24
Version: 4.14.30
Release: 2.fc24
Summary: KDE Libraries

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