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

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

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/20/2019
Created
09/21/2019
Added
09/20/2019
Modified
08/31/2020

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)

  • debian-upgrade-ibus

References

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