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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-20781: gnome-keyring security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-20781: gnome-keyring security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/12/2019
Created
11/03/2020
Added
11/02/2020
Modified
11/02/2020

Description

In pam/gkr-pam-module.c in GNOME Keyring before 3.27.2, the user's password is kept in a session-child process spawned from the LightDM daemon. This can expose the credential in cleartext.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-gnome-keyring
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-gnome-keyring-pam

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