GLSA 202011-03: KPMCore: Root privilege escalation

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Severity:	normal
Title:	KPMCore: Root privilege escalation
Date:	11/03/2020
Bugs:	#749822
ID:	202011-03

Synopsis

A vulnerability in kpmcore could result in privilege escalation.

Background

KPMcore, the KDE Partition Manager core, is a library for examining and modifying partitions, disk devices, and filesystems on a Linux system. It provides a unified programming interface over top of (external) system-manipulation tools.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
sys-libs/kpmcore	< 4.2.0	>= 4.2.0	All supported architectures

Description

Improper checks on the D-Bus request received resulted in improper protection for /etc/fstab.

Impact

An attacker could esclate privileges to root by exploiting this vulnerability.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All KPMCore users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-libs/kpmcore-4.2.0"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-202011-03.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.