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stikonascan somebody look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kpmcore/+bug/1903774 It has now been 5 months with no reaction (that's CVE with local privilege escalation).  Almost all other distros fixed it last October.10:09
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1903774 in kpmcore (Ubuntu) "kpmcore 4.1.0: CVE-2020-27187" [Undecided,New]10:09
RikMillsstikonas: if you could provide some steps to test/verify the fix the fix, that would help 10:31
RikMillsoops, too many fixes10:31
stikonaswell, the service was completely rewritten, so you can just check if files move to the new location e.g. now kpmcore_externalcommandhelper should be in libexec/ dir instead of libexec/kauth/. When I was testing the fix myself I hacked partitionmanager executable to allow running more than one copy  by removing KDBusService service(KDBusService::Unique); from partitionmanager/src/main.cpp and then only first partitionmanager asks for 10:43
stikonasroot password10:43
stikonasbut that needs recompilation...10:43
BluesKaj'Morning folks12:06

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