DSA-3004-1 kde4libs -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3004-1 kde4libs -- security update

Date Reported:

11 Aug 2014

Affected Packages:

kde4libs

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-5033.

More information:

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that Kauth used Policykit insecurely by relying on the process ID. This could result in privilege escalation.

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.