ACK on the debdiffs in comments #1 and #2. I have uploaded them for releasing as a security update, with a few minor changes, such as targeting the security pocket, some whitespace changes in the changelog, and adding the new patch to the end of the series file rather than at the beginning.
Thanks! ** Also affects: kde4libs (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: kauth (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: kde4libs (Ubuntu Artful) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed ** Also affects: kauth (Ubuntu Artful) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed ** Also affects: kde4libs (Ubuntu Trusty) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: kauth (Ubuntu Trusty) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: kde4libs (Ubuntu Yakkety) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: kauth (Ubuntu Yakkety) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: kde4libs (Ubuntu Zesty) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: kauth (Ubuntu Zesty) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: kde4libs (Ubuntu Trusty) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: kde4libs (Ubuntu Trusty) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: kde4libs (Ubuntu Trusty) Assignee: (unassigned) => Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) ** Changed in: kde4libs (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: kde4libs (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: kde4libs (Ubuntu Yakkety) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: kde4libs (Ubuntu Yakkety) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: kde4libs (Ubuntu Zesty) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: kde4libs (Ubuntu Zesty) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: kde4libs (Ubuntu Zesty) Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Changed in: kauth (Ubuntu Trusty) Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: kauth (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: kauth (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: kauth (Ubuntu Yakkety) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: kauth (Ubuntu Yakkety) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: kauth (Ubuntu Zesty) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: kauth (Ubuntu Zesty) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: kauth (Ubuntu Zesty) Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Changed in: kauth (Ubuntu Artful) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: kde4libs (Ubuntu Artful) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: kde4libs (Ubuntu Trusty) Status: Confirmed => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kauth in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1689759 Title: CVE 2017-8422 - kauth: Local privilege escalation To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kauth/+bug/1689759/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs