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Red Hat 8: RHSA-2020:1880-01 Moderate: IBus Security Access Issue

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A fresh enhancement for glib2 and ibus is out for Red Hat 8, mitigating moderate security vulnerabilities and introducing vital access enhancements
An update for glib2 and ibus is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

GLib provides the core application building blocks for libraries and applications written in C. It provides the core object system used in GNOME, the main loop implementation, and a large set of utility functions for strings and common data structures.
The Intelligent Input Bus (IBus) is an input method framework for multilingual input in Unix-like operating systems.
Security Fix(es):
* ibus: missing authorization allows local attacker to access the input bus of another user (CVE-2019-14822)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat local attack security impact glib2 ibus

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14822 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: ibus-1.5.19-11.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: ibus-1.5.19-11.el8.aarch64.rpm ibus-debuginfo-1.5.19-11.el8.aarch64.rpm ibus-debugsource-1.5.19-11.el8.aarch64.rpm ibus-gtk2-1.5.19-11.el8.aarch64.rpm ibus-gtk2-debuginfo-1.5.19-11.el8.aarch64.rpm ibus-gtk3-1.5.19-11.el8.aarch64.rpm ibus-gtk3-debuginfo-1.5.19-11.el8.aarch64.rpm ibus-libs-1.5.19-11.el8.aarch64.rpm ibus-libs-debuginfo-1.5.19-11.el8.aarch64.rpm ibus-tests-debuginfo-1.5.19-11.el8.aarch64.rpm ibus-wayland-1.5.19-11.el8.aarch64.rpm ibus-wayland-debuginfo-1.5.19-11.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: ibus-setup-1.5.19-11.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: ibus-1.5.19-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm ibus-debuginfo-1.5.19-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm ibus-debugsource-1.5.19-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm ibus-gtk2-1.5.19-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm ibus-gtk2-debuginfo-1.5.19-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm ibus-gtk3-1.5.19-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm ibus-gtk3-debuginfo-1.5.19-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm ibus-libs-1.5.19-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm ibus-libs-debuginfo-1.5.19-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm ibus-tests-debuginfo-1.5.19-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm ibus-wayland-1.5.19-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm ibus-wayland-debuginfo-1.5.19-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: ibus-1.5.19-11.el8.s390x.rpm ibus-debuginfo-1.5.19-11.el8.s390x.rpm ibus-debugsource-1.5.19-11.el8.s390x.rpm ibus-gtk2-1.5.19-11.el8.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1880-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1880
Issue date: 2020-04-28

Topic

An update for glib2 and ibus is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat local attack security impact glib2 ibus

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1717958 - CVE-2019-14822 ibus: missing authorization allows local attacker to access the input bus of another user

1777213 - IBUS input methods don't work in QT5-based applications

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