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Red Hat: RHSA-2021:0270-01 Important: PolicyKit Security Enhancement

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Calendar Grey January 26, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Minor security patch for gnome-settings-daemon in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 addresses command line exposure issue.
An update for gnome-settings-daemon is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

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

The gnome-settings-daemon packages contain a daemon to share settings from GNOME to other applications. It also handles global key bindings, as well as a number of desktop-wide settings.
Security Fix(es):
* gnome-settings-daemon: Red Hat Customer Portal password logged and passed as command line argument when user registers through GNOME control center (CVE-2020-14391)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update security issue red hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux gnome-settings-daemon command line logging extensible updates

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14391 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2):
Source: gnome-settings-daemon-3.32.0-9.el8_2.1.src.rpm
aarch64: gnome-settings-daemon-3.32.0-9.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm gnome-settings-daemon-debuginfo-3.32.0-9.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm gnome-settings-daemon-debugsource-3.32.0-9.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: gnome-settings-daemon-3.32.0-9.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm gnome-settings-daemon-debuginfo-3.32.0-9.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm gnome-settings-daemon-debugsource-3.32.0-9.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: gnome-settings-daemon-3.32.0-9.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm gnome-settings-daemon-debuginfo-3.32.0-9.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm gnome-settings-daemon-debugsource-3.32.0-9.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:0266-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0266
Issue date: 2021-01-26

Topic

An update for gnome-settings-daemon is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 8.2 Extended Update Support.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update security issue red hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux gnome-settings-daemon command line logging extensible updates

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1873093 - CVE-2020-14391 gnome-settings-daemon: Red Hat Customer Portal password logged and passed as command line argument when user registers through GNOME control center

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