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Severity: High
Title: KDE Plasma Workspaces: Privilege Escalation
Date: July 06, 2024
Bugs: #933342
ID: 202407-20

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Synopsis
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A vulnerability has been discovered in KDE Plasma Workspaces, which can
lead to privilege escalation.

Background
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KDE Plasma workspace is a widget based desktop environment designed to
be fast and efficient.

Affected packages
=================

Package Vulnerable Unaffected --------------------------- ------------ ------------ kde-plasma/plasma-workspace < 5.27.11.1 >= 5.27.11.1

Description
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in KDE Plasma Workspaces.
Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact
======

KSmserver, KDE's XSMP manager, incorrectly allows connections via ICE
based purely on the host, allowing all local connections. This allows
another user on the same machine to gain access to the session
manager.

A well crafted client could use the session restore feature to execute arbitrary code as the user on the next boot.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All KDE Plasma Workspaces users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.27.11.1"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2024-36041
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-36041

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202407-20

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2024 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5
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