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Fedora 33: FEDORA-2020-73471e6414 Moderate: kde-partitionmanager Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This announcement pertains to a security fix for local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the package kde-diskmanager on Fedora 34. Key information is provided.
Update kpmcore to 4.2.0 and rebuild all dependent packages

Summary

KDE Partition Manager is a utility program to help you manage the disk devices,

partitions and file systems on your computer. It allows you to easily create,

copy, move, delete, resize without losing data, backup and restore partitions.

KDE Partition Manager supports a large number of file systems,

including ext2/3/4, reiserfs, NTFS, FAT16/32, jfs, xfs and more.

Starting from version 1.9.50 KDE Partition Manager has become the GUI part of

KPMcore (KDE PartitionManager core) which contain the libraries used to

manipulate filesystems.

Update kpmcore to 4.2.0 and rebuild all dependent packages. This update also

fixes CVE-2020-27187.

* Sat Oct 17 2020 Mattia Verga - 4.2.0-1

- Update to stable release 4.2.0

[ 1 ] Bug #1890199 - CVE-2020-27187 kpmcore: kpmcore_externalcommand helper can be exploited in local privilege escalation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1890199

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-73471e6414' 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

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 33
Version: 4.2.0
Release: 1.fc33
URL: Summary : KDE Partition Manager

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