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<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 "&gt;=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>
