CVE-2014-8651

High

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.

SeverityHigh

CVSS7.2

Exploit probability—

ProductKde Plasma-desktop

PublishedDec 6, 2014

First seenDec 6, 2014

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-12

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
kde plasma-desktop	v ≤ 5.1	—
kde kde-workspace	v ≤ 4.11.13	—

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