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Ubuntu: USN-4958-1: Caribou vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4958-1: Caribou vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/17/2021
Created
05/20/2021
Added
05/18/2021
Modified
05/18/2021

Description

It was discovered that the Caribou onscreen keyboard could be made to crash when given certain input values. An attacker could use this to bypass screen-locking applications that support using Caribou as an input mechanism.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-gir1-2-caribou-1-0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libcaribou0

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