Description of problem: kdelibs3 includes the setuid root program kgrantpty. I have audited the content of the binary, as well as the code in kdelibs3, and have come to the following conclusion: The setuid program DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on a Linux platform with devpts; it is in fact never called. It is invoked via the private method KPty::chownpty() only from KPty::open() or KPty::close(), and in both cases the code to call chownpty() is explicitly bypassed when Unix98 ptys are in use. Therefore, this binary serves no purpose, and in the interest of reducing the system attack vector, should be dropped.
s/attack vector/attack surface/
as i remember correctly kgrantpty is intended to be used internally by konsole to open a slave pty securely, it performs a setuid chmod and chown on the slave pty device.
Hmmm, kdelibs3 is a compatibility library, making unnecessary changes in it might break things. Are we sure really nothing expects kgrantpty to be there? Have you tried deleting it and then trying legacy kdelibs3 programs to check that they still work? (In particular, if you find anything using the old KonsolePart from kdebase3, that'd be worth testing.) If it's really unnecessary, we can delete it, but I'd like to be reasonably sure that there aren't any legacy programs which expect it to be there.
Look at the source code! kgrantpty is only invoked in a single place, in KPty::chownpty(), which is a private method (not exported from the library); it in turn is only called in two places, both of which have explicit tests for Unix98 PTYs which bypass the call to chownpty(). If something outside kdelibs3 needs kgrantpty then it is a legacy application in its own right and should be packaged into a separate package.
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it's fixed in kdelibs3-3.5.10-75.fc25