svn commit: r440555 - head/security/vuxml

Tobias C. Berner tcberner at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 10 12:02:04 UTC 2017


Author: tcberner
Date: Wed May 10 12:02:02 2017
New Revision: 440555
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/440555

Log:
  Document kauth privilege escalation.
  
  Reviewed by:	rakuco
  Approved by:	rakuco (mentor)
  Security:	CVE-2017-8422
  Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10660

Modified:
  head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml

Modified: head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml	Wed May 10 11:25:51 2017	(r440554)
+++ head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml	Wed May 10 12:02:02 2017	(r440555)
@@ -58,6 +58,42 @@ Notes:
   * Do not forget port variants (linux-f10-libxml2, libxml2, etc.)
 -->
 <vuxml xmlns="http://www.vuxml.org/apps/vuxml-1">
+  <vuln vid="0baee383-356c-11e7-b9a9-50e549ebab6c">
+    <topic>kauth: Local privilege escalation</topic>
+    <affects>
+      <package>
+	<name>kdelibs</name>
+	<range><lt>4.14.30_4</lt></range>
+      </package>
+      <package>
+	<name>kf5-kauth</name>
+	<range><lt>5.33.0_1</lt></range>
+      </package>
+    </affects>
+    <description>
+      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+	<p>Albert Astals Cid reports:</p>
+	<blockquote cite="https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20170510-1.txt">
+	  <p>KAuth contains a logic flaw in which the service invoking dbus
+	     is not properly checked.
+	     This allows spoofing the identity of the caller and with some
+	     carefully crafted calls can lead to gaining root from an
+	     unprivileged account.
+	  </p>
+	</blockquote>
+      </body>
+    </description>
+    <references>
+      <cvename>CVE-2017-8422</cvename>
+      <mlist>http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/10/3</mlist>
+      <url>https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20170510-1.txt</url>
+    </references>
+    <dates>
+      <discovery>2017-05-10</discovery>
+      <entry>2017-05-10</entry>
+    </dates>
+  </vuln>
+
   <vuln vid="57600032-34fe-11e7-8965-bcaec524bf84">
     <topic>libetpan -- null dereference vulnerability in MIME parsing component</topic>
     <affects>


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