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openSUSE Leap 42.2: openSUSE-SU-2017:1272-1 Important: KAuth Escalation

opensuse
Calendar Grey May 15, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Addresses a critical security flaw in openSUSE's kauth and kdelibs4 modules impacting releases 42.1 and 42.2.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for kauth and kdelibs4 fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2017-8422: logic flaw in the KAuth framework allowed privilege

escalation (boo#1036244).

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-575=1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-575=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

kauth-debugsource-5.26.0-2.3.1

kauth-devel-5.26.0-2.3.1

kdelibs4-4.14.25-7.4.1

kdelibs4-branding-upstream-4.14.25-7.4.1

kdelibs4-core-4.14.25-7.4.1

kdelibs4-core-debuginfo-4.14.25-7.4.1

kdelibs4-debuginfo-4.14.25-7.4.1

kdelibs4-debugsource-4.14.25-7.4.1

kdelibs4-doc-4.14.25-7.4.1

kdelibs4-doc-debuginfo-4.14.25-7.4.1

libKF5Auth5-5.26.0-2.3.1

libKF5Auth5-debuginfo-5.26.0-2.3.1

libkde4-4.14.25-7.4.1

libkde4-debuginfo-4.14.25-7.4.1

libkde4-devel-4.14.25-7.4.1

libkdecore4-4.14.25-7.4.1

libkdecore4-debuginfo-4.14.25-7.4.1

libkdecore4-devel-4.14.25-7.4.1

libkdecore4-devel-debuginfo-4.14.25-7.4.1

libksuseinstall-devel-4.14.25-7.4.1

libksuseinstall1-4.14.25-7.4.1

libksuseinstall1-debuginfo-4.14.25-7.4.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64):

kauth-devel-32bit-5.26.0-2.3.1

libKF5Auth5-32bit-5.26.0-2.3.1

libKF5Auth5-debuginfo-32bit-5.26.0-2.3.1

libkde4-32bit-4.14.25-7.4.1

libkde4-debuginfo-32bit-4.14.25-7.4.1

libkdecore4-32bit-4.14.25-7.4.1

libkdecore4-debuginfo-32bit-4.14.25-7.4.1

libksuseinstall1-...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8422.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1036244

Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:1272-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 openSUSE Leap 42.1 .

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