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Gentoo: GLSA-202011-03 Normal: KPMCore Root Escalation Risk

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Calendar Grey November 2, 2020
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The CVE-2023-XXXX vulnerability in KPMCore enables unauthorized privilege escalation on Gentoo Linux systems, making it essential to apply updates to mitigate security risks.
A vulnerability in kpmcore could result in privilege escalation.

Summary

Improper checks on the D-Bus request received resulted in improper protection for /etc/fstab.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo privilege escalation normal kpmcore

Resolution

All KPMCore users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-libs/kpmcore-4.2.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2020-27187 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27187 [ 2 ] Upstream advisory https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-announce/2020-October/000124.html

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-03
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: KPMCore: Root privilege escalation
Date: November 03, 2020
Bugs: #749822
ID: 202011-03

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo privilege escalation normal kpmcore

Synopsis

A vulnerability in kpmcore could result in privilege escalation.

Background

KPMcore, the KDE Partition Manager core, is a library for examining and modifying partitions, disk devices, and filesystems on a Linux system. It provides a unified programming interface over top of (external) system-manipulation tools.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sys-libs/kpmcore < 4.2.0 >= 4.2.0

Impact

===== An attacker could esclate privileges to root by exploiting this vulnerability.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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