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Fedora 33: 2020-73471e6414 Critical: kpmcore Local Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Improvements for kpmcore to guarantee security and reliability within Fedora 33. Upgrade to release 4.2.0 today.
Update kpmcore to 4.2.0 and rebuild all dependent packages

Summary

KPMcore contains common code for managing partitions by KDE Partition Manager

and other KDE projects

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

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 4.2.0
Release: 1.fc33
Summary: Library for managing partitions by KDE programs

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