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Medium ALSA-2020:1880 1 CVE

Moderate: ibus and glib2 security and bug fix update

Published Apr 28, 2020 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

GLib provides the core application building blocks for libraries and applications written in C. It provides the core object system used in GNOME, the main loop implementation, and a large set of utility functions for strings and common data structures.

The Intelligent Input Bus (IBus) is an input method framework for multilingual input in Unix-like operating systems.

Security Fix(es):

* ibus: missing authorization allows local attacker to access the input bus of another user (CVE-2019-14822)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 glib2-doc 2.56.4-8.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 glib2-static 2.56.4-8.el8

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

  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2019-14822