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Medium ALAS2-2020-1555 1 CVE

Moderate: ibus security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Nov 9, 2020 · Updated Nov 11, 2020

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-14822: A flaw was discovered in ibus that allows any unprivileged user to monitor and send method calls to the ibus bus of another user due to a misconfiguration in the DBus server setup. A local attacker may use this flaw to intercept all keystrokes of a victim user who is using the graphical interface, change the input method engine, or modify other input related configurations of the victim user. 1717958: CVE-2019-14822 ibus: missing authorization allows local attacker to access the input bus of another user

Fixed packages 9

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 ibus 0:1.5.17-11.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 ibus-debuginfo 0:1.5.17-11.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 ibus-devel 0:1.5.17-11.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 ibus-devel-docs 0:1.5.17-11.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 ibus-gtk2 0:1.5.17-11.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 ibus-gtk3 0:1.5.17-11.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 ibus-libs 0:1.5.17-11.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 ibus-pygtk2 0:1.5.17-11.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 ibus-setup 0:1.5.17-11.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Unscored —

    A flaw was discovered in ibus in versions before 1.5.22 that allows any unprivileged user to monitor and send method ca…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-14822.html