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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-14822: Moderate: ibus and glib2 security and bug fix update (ALSA-2020-1880)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-14822: Moderate: ibus and glib2 security and bug fix update (ALSA-2020-1880)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
11/25/2019
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

A flaw was discovered in ibus in versions before 1.5.22 that allows any unprivileged user to monitor and send method calls to the ibus bus of another user due to a misconfiguration in the DBus server setup. A local attacker may use this flaw to intercept all keystrokes of a victim user who is using the graphical interface, change the input method engine, or modify other input related configurations of the victim user.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-glib2-doc
  • alma-upgrade-glib2-static

References

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