Fedora 24: kf5-kauth Security Update Addressing Privilege Escalation

KAuth is a framework to let applications perform actions as a privileged user.

security fix for CVE-2017-8422.

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

[ 1 ] Bug #1449652 - CVE-2017-8422 kf5-kauth: kauth: service invoking dbus is not properly checked and allows local privilege escalation [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449652

su -c 'dnf upgrade kf5-kauth' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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

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