Summary
Sebastian Krahmer discovered that Kauth used Policykit insecurely by relying on the process ID. This could result in privilege escalation.
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 4:4.8.4-4+deb7u1.
For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 4:4.13.3-2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4:4.13.3-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your kde4libs packages.
Affected
kde4libs on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2014-5033 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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