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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS USN-2402-1 Critical: KDE Workspace Admin Access Issue

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Calendar Grey November 11, 2014
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Ubuntu has released advisory USN-2402-1 regarding vulnerabilities in KDE workspace that could grant admin privileges. It is crucial to update your system without delay.
KDE workspace could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.

Summary

KDE workspace could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.

Software Description:

- kde-workspace: KDE Plasma Workspace components

Details:

David Edmundson discovered that the KDE Clock KCM policykit helper did not

properly guard against untrusted input. Under certain circumstances, a

process running under the user's session could exploit this to run

programs as the administrator.

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Topics Covered

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  kde-workspace-bin               4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.4

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2402-1

CVE-2014-8651

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=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2402-1

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security advisory critical software update ubuntu administrative access crash kde-workspace

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-workspace/4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.4

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