vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2019-14822: ibus -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 20, 2019
Added
Sep 20, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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

debian-upgrade-ibus
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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