This bug was fixed in the package kauth - 5.18.0-0ubuntu2
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kauth (5.18.0-0ubuntu2) xenial-security; urgency=medium
[ José Manuel Santamaría Lema ]
* SECURITY UPDATE: Local privilege escalation (LP: #1689759)
- debian/patches/local-privilege-esc-CVE-2017-8422.patch
- Thanks to Sebastian Krahmer for reporting this issue,
Albert Astals Cid for fixing this issue.
- CVE-2017-8422
[ Philip Muškovac ]
* Update the Vcs URLs now that the repositories are hosted on
Launchpad
-- José Manuel Santamaría Lema <[email protected]> Tue, 16 May 2017
10:20:58 -0700
** Changed in: kauth (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: In Progress => Fix Released
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CVE 2017-8422 - kauth: Local privilege escalation
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