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A kde-partitionmanager security update has been released for Fedora 33.



SECURITY: Fedora 33 Update: kde-partitionmanager-4.2.0-1.fc33


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-73471e6414
2020-10-23 22:01:02.263265
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Name : kde-partitionmanager
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 4.2.0
Release : 1.fc33
URL :   http://www.kde.org/applications/system/kdepartitionmanager/
Summary : KDE Partition Manager
Description :
KDE Partition Manager is a utility program to help you manage the disk devices,
partitions and file systems on your computer. It allows you to easily create,
copy, move, delete, resize without losing data, backup and restore partitions.

KDE Partition Manager supports a large number of file systems,
including ext2/3/4, reiserfs, NTFS, FAT16/32, jfs, xfs and more.

Starting from version 1.9.50 KDE Partition Manager has become the GUI part of
KPMcore (KDE PartitionManager core) which contain the libraries used to
manipulate filesystems.

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Update Information:

Update kpmcore to 4.2.0 and rebuild all dependent packages. This update also
fixes CVE-2020-27187.
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Oct 17 2020 Mattia Verga - 4.2.0-1
- Update to stable release 4.2.0
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1890199 - CVE-2020-27187 kpmcore: kpmcore_externalcommand helper can be exploited in local privilege escalation
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1890199
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-73471e6414' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
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  https://fedoraproject.org/keys