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Ubuntu: USN-4134-2: IBus regression

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Ubuntu: USN-4134-2: IBus regression

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/23/2019
Created
09/25/2019
Added
09/24/2019
Modified
08/05/2020

Description

USN-4134-1 fixed a vulnerability in IBus. The security fix introduced a regression when being used with Qt applications. This update reverts the security fix pending further investigation.

Original advisory details:

Simon McVittie discovered that IBus did not enforce appropriate access controls on its private D-Bus socket. A local unprivileged user who discovers the IBus socket address of another user could exploit this to capture the key strokes of the other user.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-ibus

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