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Fedora 25: kf5-kauth Advisory for CVE-2017-8422 Critical Security Fix

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Calendar Grey May 15, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The security notice for Fedora 25 highlights the kf5-kauth vulnerability referenced as CVE-2017-8422, offering crucial patches for users.
security fix for CVE-2017-8422

Summary

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

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

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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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 5.33.0
Release: 2.fc25
URL: Summary : KDE Frameworks 5 Tier 2 integration module to perform actions as privileged user

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