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Red Hat: RHSA-2022-5257-01 Moderate: Libinput Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey July 1, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Debian announced a significant security patch for libinput, addressing a vulnerability that could lead to elevated privileges.
An update for libinput is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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

libinput is a library that handles input devices for display servers and other applications that need to directly deal with input devices.
Security Fix(es):
* libinput: format string vulnerability may lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-1215)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update privilege escalation Red Hat Enterprise libinput

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1215 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: libinput-1.19.3-2.el9_0.src.rpm
aarch64: libinput-1.19.3-2.el9_0.aarch64.rpm libinput-debuginfo-1.19.3-2.el9_0.aarch64.rpm libinput-debugsource-1.19.3-2.el9_0.aarch64.rpm libinput-test-debuginfo-1.19.3-2.el9_0.aarch64.rpm libinput-utils-1.19.3-2.el9_0.aarch64.rpm libinput-utils-debuginfo-1.19.3-2.el9_0.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libinput-1.19.3-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm libinput-debuginfo-1.19.3-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm libinput-debugsource-1.19.3-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm libinput-test-debuginfo-1.19.3-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm libinput-utils-1.19.3-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm libinput-utils-debuginfo-1.19.3-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libinput-1.19.3-2.el9_0.s390x.rpm libinput-debuginfo-1.19.3-2.el9_0.s390x.rpm libinput-debugsource-1.19.3-2.el9_0.s390x.rpm libinput-test-debuginfo-1.19.3-2.el9_0.s390x.rpm libinput-utils-1.19.3-2.el9_0.s390x.rpm libinput-utils-debuginfo-1.19.3-2.el9_0.s390x.rpm
x86_64: libinput-1.19.3-2.el9_0.i686.rpm libinput-1.19.3-2.el9_0.x86_64.rpm libinput-debuginfo-1.19.3-2.el9_0.i686.rpm libinput-debuginfo-1.19.3-2.el9_0.x86_64.rpm libinput-debugsource-1.19.3-2.el9_0.i686.rpm libinput-debugsource-1.19.3-2.el9_0.x86_64.rpm libinput-test-debuginfo-1.19.3-2.el9_0.i686.rpm libinput-test-debuginfo-1.19.3-2.el9_0.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:5257-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5257
Issue date: 2022-06-28

Topic

An update for libinput is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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 privilege escalation Red Hat Enterprise libinput

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2074952 - CVE-2022-1215 libinput: format string vulnerability may lead to privilege escalation

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