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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2022-1814 Low Risk Gnome-Shell Update

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Canonical releases a minor severity security notice for ubuntu-desktop addressing vulnerabilities with fixes and suggested updates for users.
An update for gnome-shell 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

GNOME Shell acts as a compositing manager for the desktop, and displays both application windows and other objects. It provides core interface functions like switching windows, launching applications, and notifications. It takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts.
Security Fix(es):
* gnome-shell: Password from logged-out user may be shown on login screen (CVE-2020-17489)
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 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity gnome-shell login screen issue

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-17489 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.6_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: gnome-shell-3.32.2-44.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: gnome-shell-3.32.2-44.el8.aarch64.rpm gnome-shell-debuginfo-3.32.2-44.el8.aarch64.rpm gnome-shell-debugsource-3.32.2-44.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: gnome-shell-3.32.2-44.el8.ppc64le.rpm gnome-shell-debuginfo-3.32.2-44.el8.ppc64le.rpm gnome-shell-debugsource-3.32.2-44.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: gnome-shell-3.32.2-44.el8.s390x.rpm gnome-shell-debuginfo-3.32.2-44.el8.s390x.rpm gnome-shell-debugsource-3.32.2-44.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: gnome-shell-3.32.2-44.el8.x86_64.rpm gnome-shell-debuginfo-3.32.2-44.el8.x86_64.rpm gnome-shell-debugsource-3.32.2-44.el8.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-2022:1814-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1814
Issue date: 2022-05-10

Topic

An update for gnome-shell is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. 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 security update bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity gnome-shell login screen issue

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1868418 - CVE-2020-17489 gnome-shell: Password from logged-out user may be shown on login screen

2000918 - Enabled extensions appear on lock screen [rhel-8.6.0]

2025940 - [Bug] gnome-shell errors in syslog

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