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CVE-2014-5033

CVE-2014-5033

EPSS 0.4%
KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, related to CVE-2013-4288 and "PID reuse race conditions."
Affected products
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References
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00012.htmlhttp://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kauth.git&a=commit&h=341b7d84b6d9c03cf56905cb277b47e11c81482ahttp://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=e4e7b53b71e2659adaf52691d4accc3594203b23http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1359.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/60385http://secunia.com/advisories/60633http://secunia.com/advisories/60654http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3004http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20140730-1.txthttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2304-1