KDE workspace could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.
David Edmundson discovered that the KDE Clock KCM policykit helper did not properly guard against untrusted input. Under certain circumstances, a process running under the user’s session could exploit this to run programs as the administrator.
11 November 2014
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
KDE workspace could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.
David Edmundson discovered that the KDE Clock KCM policykit helper did not properly guard against untrusted input. Under certain circumstances, a process running under the user’s session could exploit this to run programs as the administrator.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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