<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201512-12"> <title>KDE Systemsettings: Privilege escalation</title> <synopsis>Data validation in KDE Systemsettings could lead to local privilege escalation. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">systemsettings</product> <announced>December 30, 2015</announced> <revised>December 30, 2015: 1</revised> <bug>528468</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="kde-base/systemsettings" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">4.11.13-r1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">4.11.13-r1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>KDE workspace configuration module for setting the date and time has a helper program which runs as root for performing actions. </p> </background> <description> <p>KDE Systemsettings fails to properly validate user input before passing it as argument in context of higher privilege. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A local attacker could gain privileges via a crafted ntpUtility (ntp utility name) argument. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>Add a polkit rule to disable the org.kde.kcontrol.kcmclock.save action.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All KDE Systemsettings users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=kde-base/systemsettings-4.11.13-r1" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8651">CVE-2014-8651</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 03 Jun 2015 07:50:15 +0000">Zlogene</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:52:40 +0000">mrueg</metadata> </glsa>