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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202011-03">
<title>KPMCore: Root privilege escalation</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability in kpmcore could result in privilege escalation.</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">kpmcore</product>
<announced>2020-11-03</announced>
<revised count="1">2020-11-03</revised>
<bug>749822</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="sys-libs/kpmcore" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">4.2.0</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">4.2.0</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>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.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>Improper checks on the D-Bus request received resulted in improper
protection for /etc/fstab.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>An attacker could esclate privileges to root by exploiting this
vulnerability.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All KPMCore users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-libs/kpmcore-4.2.0"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27187">CVE-2020-27187</uri>
<uri link="https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-announce/2020-October/000124.html">
Upstream advisory
</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-10-23T04:10:26Z">sam_c</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-11-03T00:33:42Z">sam_c</metadata>
</glsa>
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