CVE-2014-5033
Published: 23 July 2014
KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, related to CVE-2013-4288 and "PID reuse race conditions."
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
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kde4libs Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
lucid |
Ignored
(end of life)
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| precise |
Released
(4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.4)
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| trusty |
Released
(4:4.13.2a-0ubuntu0.3)
|
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| upstream |
Needed
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Patches: upstream: http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commit&h=e4e7b53b71e2659adaf52691d4accc3594203b23 |
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