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Ubuntu: USN-4053-1 (CVE-2019-12448): GVfs vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4053-1 (CVE-2019-12448): GVfs vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/29/2019
Created
07/10/2019
Added
07/10/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in GNOME gvfs 1.29.4 through 1.41.2. daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c has race conditions because the admin backend doesn't implement query_info_on_read/write.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-gvfs
  • ubuntu-upgrade-gvfs-backends

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