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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-14822: Security patch for ibus (ALAS-2020-1555)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-14822: Security patch for ibus (ALAS-2020-1555)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
11/25/2019
Created
11/13/2020
Added
11/12/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

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)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ibus
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ibus-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ibus-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ibus-devel-docs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ibus-gtk2
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ibus-gtk3
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ibus-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ibus-pygtk2
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ibus-setup

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