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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-6bdbf57f29
2017-05-15 12:48:25.123057
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Name : kf5-kauth
Product : Fedora 24
Version : 5.33.0
Release : 2.fc24
URL :
https://cgit.kde.org/kauth.git
Summary : KDE Frameworks 5 Tier 2 integration module to perform actions as privileged
user
Description :
KAuth is a framework to let applications perform actions as a privileged user.
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Update Information:
security fix for CVE-2017-8422.
https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20170510-1.txt
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1449652 - CVE-2017-8422 kf5-kauth: kauth: service invoking dbus is not
properly checked and allows local privilege escalation [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449652
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade kf5-kauth' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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