Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-1264-01 - The K Desktop Environment is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System. The kdelibs packages include core libraries for the K Desktop Environment. Security Fix: A privilege escalation flaw was found in the way kdelibs handled D-Bus messages. A local user could potentially use this flaw to gain root privileges by spoofing a callerID and leveraging a privileged helper application.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: kdelibs security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:1264-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1264
Issue date: 2017-05-22
CVE Names: CVE-2017-8422
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1. Summary:
An update for kdelibs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch
3. Description:
The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a graphical desktop environment for the
X Window System. The kdelibs packages include core libraries for the K
Desktop Environment.
Security Fix(es):
* A privilege escalation flaw was found in the way kdelibs handled D-Bus
messages. A local user could potentially use this flaw to gain root
privileges by spoofing a callerID and leveraging a privileged helper
application. (CVE-2017-8422)
Red Hat would like to thank Sebastian Krahmer (SUSE) for reporting this
issue.
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
The desktop must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update
to take effect.
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1449647 - CVE-2017-8422 kauth: service invoking dbus is not properly checked and allows local privilege escalation
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source:
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.src.rpm
x86_64:
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-common-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
noarch:
kdelibs-apidocs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source:
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.src.rpm
x86_64:
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-common-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
noarch:
kdelibs-apidocs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source:
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.src.rpm
aarch64:
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.aarch64.rpm
kdelibs-common-4.14.8-6.el7_3.aarch64.rpm
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.aarch64.rpm
kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-6.el7_3.aarch64.rpm
kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-6.el7_3.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.ppc64le.rpm
kdelibs-common-4.14.8-6.el7_3.ppc64le.rpm
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.ppc64le.rpm
kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-6.el7_3.ppc64le.rpm
kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-6.el7_3.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64:
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-common-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
Source:
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.src.rpm
noarch:
kdelibs-apidocs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.noarch.rpm
ppc64:
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.ppc.rpm
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.ppc64.rpm
kdelibs-common-4.14.8-6.el7_3.ppc64.rpm
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.ppc.rpm
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.ppc64.rpm
kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-6.el7_3.ppc.rpm
kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-6.el7_3.ppc64.rpm
kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-6.el7_3.ppc.rpm
kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-6.el7_3.ppc64.rpm
s390x:
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.s390.rpm
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.s390x.rpm
kdelibs-common-4.14.8-6.el7_3.s390x.rpm
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.s390.rpm
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.s390x.rpm
kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-6.el7_3.s390.rpm
kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-6.el7_3.s390x.rpm
kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-6.el7_3.s390.rpm
kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-6.el7_3.s390x.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source:
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.src.rpm
x86_64:
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-common-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-devel-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-6.el7_3.i686.rpm
kdelibs-ktexteditor-4.14.8-6.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7):
noarch:
kdelibs-apidocs-4.14.8-6.el7_3.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8422
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
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