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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2402-1
November 11, 2014

kde-workspace vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

KDE workspace could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.

Software Description:

• kde-workspace: KDE Plasma Workspace components

Details:

David Edmundson discovered that the KDE Clock KCM policykit helper did not
properly guard against untrusted input. Under certain circumstances, a
process running under the user's session could exploit this to run
programs as the administrator.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
kde-workspace-bin 4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.4

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2402-1
CVE-2014-8651

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-workspace/4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.4

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