KDE Project Security Advisory
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Title: kwallet-pam: Access to privileged files
Risk Rating: High
CVE: CVE-2018-10380
Versions: Plasma < 5.12.6
Date: 4 May 2018
Overview
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kwallet-pam was doing file writing and permission changing
as root that with correct timing and use of carefully
crafted symbolic links could allow a non privileged user
to become the owner of any file on the system.
Workaround
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None (other than not using kwallet-pam)
Solution
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Update to Plasma >= 5.12.6 or Plasma >= 5.13.0
Or apply the following patches:
Plasma 5.12
https://commits.kde.org/kwallet-pam/2134dec85ce19d6378d03cddfae9e5e464cb24c0
https://commits.kde.org/kwallet-pam/01d4143fda5bddb6dca37b23304dc239a5fb38b5
Plasma 5.8
https://commits.kde.org/kwallet-pam/99abc7fde21f40cc6da5feb6ee766cc46fcca1f8
https://commits.kde.org/kwallet-pam/802f305d81f8771c4f4a8bd7fd0e368ffc6f9b3b
Credits
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Thanks to Fabian Vogt for the report and to Albert Astals Cid for the fix.
