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.
Find out more about CVE-2017-8422 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.8 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Local |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | Low |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (kdelibs) | RHSA-2017:1264 | 2017-05-22 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kdelibs-experimental | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | kdelibs | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | kdelibs3 | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | kdelibs-experimental | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kdelibs | Not affected |
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