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RHEL 7 : kdelibs (RHSA-2017:1264)

high Nessus Plugin ID 100345

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

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.

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1264

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-8422

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 100345

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-1264.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/23/2017

Updated: 10/24/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs-apidocs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs-ktexteditor, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdelibs-debuginfo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/22/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-8422

RHSA: 2017:1264