Vulnerability CVE-2014-8651
Published: 2014-12-06   Modified: 2014-12-07

Description:
The KDE Clock KCM policykit helper in kde-workspace before 4.11.14 and plasma-desktop before 5.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted ntpUtility (ntp utility name) argument.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
KDE -> Kde-workspace 
KDE -> Plasma-desktop 

 References:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/143781.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/144034.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/144093.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/04/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/07/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70904
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2402-1
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-12
https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20141106-1.txt
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