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openSUSE: 2020:1861-1 Moderate Security Issue in gnome-settings-daemon

opensuse
Calendar Grey November 7, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest openSUSE update for gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-shell fixes vulnerabilities identified as CVE-2020-17489, boosting system security and stability.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-shell fixes the following

issues:

gnome-settings-daemon:

- Add support for recent UCM related changes in ALSA and PulseAudio.

(jsc#SLE-16518)

- Don't warn when a default source or sink is missing and the PulseAudio

daemon is restarting. (jsc#SLE-16518)

- Don't warn about starting/stopping services which don't exist.

(bsc#1172760).

gnome-shell:

- Add support for recent UCM related changes in ALSA and PulseAudio.

(jsc#SLE-16518)

- CVE-2020-17489: reset auth prompt on vt switch before fade in in

loginDialog (bsc#1175155).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate auth issue gnome-shell openSUSE gnome-settings-daemon

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1861=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

gnome-settings-daemon-lang-3.34.2+0-lp152.3.3.1

gnome-shell-lang-3.34.5-lp152.2.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

gnome-settings-daemon-3.34.2+0-lp152.3.3.1

gnome-settings-daemon-debuginfo-3.34.2+0-lp152.3.3.1

gnome-settings-daemon-debugsource-3.34.2+0-lp152.3.3.1

gnome-settings-daemon-devel-3.34.2+0-lp152.3.3.1

gnome-shell-3.34.5-lp152.2.9.1

gnome-shell-calendar-3.34.5-lp152.2.9.1

gnome-shell-calendar-debuginfo-3.34.5-lp152.2.9.1

gnome-shell-debuginfo-3.34.5-lp152.2.9.1

gnome-shell-debugsource-3.34.5-lp152.2.9.1

gnome-shell-devel-3.34.5-lp152.2.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-17489.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1172760

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175155

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1861-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 le.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate auth issue gnome-shell openSUSE gnome-settings-daemon

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