debian · CVE-2017-8422

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:00:16 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-8422 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (kauth), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

KDE kdelibs before 4.14.32 and KAuth before 5.34 allow local users to gain root privileges by spoofing a callerID and leveraging a privileged helper app.

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