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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-20781 (11.4 SRU 27.82.1)

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-20781 (11.4 SRU 27.82.1)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/12/2019
Created
01/20/2021
Added
01/19/2021
Modified
02/17/2022

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)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-gnome-gnome-keyring-3-34-0-11-4-27-0-1-82-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-gnome-gcr-3-33-4-11-4-27-0-1-82-0

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