MGASA-2019-0284 - Updated ibus packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 21 Sep 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0284.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6, 7
CVE: CVE-2019-14822

It was discovered that any unprivileged user could monitor and send method
calls to the ibus bus of another user, due to a misconfiguration during the
setup of the DBus server. When ibus is in use, a local attacker, who discoversthe UNIX socket used by another user connected on a graphical environment,
could use this flaw to intercept all keystrokes of the victim user or modify
input related configurations through DBus method calls (CVE-2019-14822).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25434
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/13/1
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14822

SRPMS:
- 7/core/ibus-1.5.20-1.1.mga7
- 6/core/ibus-1.5.16-3.1.mga6

Mageia 2019-0284: ibus security update

It was discovered that any unprivileged user could monitor and send method calls to the ibus bus of another user, due to a misconfiguration during the setup of the DBus server

Summary

It was discovered that any unprivileged user could monitor and send method calls to the ibus bus of another user, due to a misconfiguration during the setup of the DBus server. When ibus is in use, a local attacker, who discoversthe UNIX socket used by another user connected on a graphical environment, could use this flaw to intercept all keystrokes of the victim user or modify input related configurations through DBus method calls (CVE-2019-14822).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25434

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/13/1

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14822

Resolution

MGASA-2019-0284 - Updated ibus packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 7/core/ibus-1.5.20-1.1.mga7

- 6/core/ibus-1.5.16-3.1.mga6

Severity
Publication date: 21 Sep 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0284.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-14822

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