Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2020-1555
Advisory Release Date: 2020-11-09 17:10 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2020-11-11 17:17 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
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. (CVE-2019-14822)
Affected Packages:
ibus
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ibus to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
ibus-1.5.17-11.amzn2.aarch64
ibus-libs-1.5.17-11.amzn2.aarch64
ibus-gtk2-1.5.17-11.amzn2.aarch64
ibus-gtk3-1.5.17-11.amzn2.aarch64
ibus-devel-1.5.17-11.amzn2.aarch64
ibus-debuginfo-1.5.17-11.amzn2.aarch64
i686:
ibus-1.5.17-11.amzn2.i686
ibus-libs-1.5.17-11.amzn2.i686
ibus-gtk2-1.5.17-11.amzn2.i686
ibus-gtk3-1.5.17-11.amzn2.i686
ibus-devel-1.5.17-11.amzn2.i686
ibus-debuginfo-1.5.17-11.amzn2.i686
noarch:
ibus-setup-1.5.17-11.amzn2.noarch
ibus-pygtk2-1.5.17-11.amzn2.noarch
ibus-devel-docs-1.5.17-11.amzn2.noarch
src:
ibus-1.5.17-11.amzn2.src
x86_64:
ibus-1.5.17-11.amzn2.x86_64
ibus-libs-1.5.17-11.amzn2.x86_64
ibus-gtk2-1.5.17-11.amzn2.x86_64
ibus-gtk3-1.5.17-11.amzn2.x86_64
ibus-devel-1.5.17-11.amzn2.x86_64
ibus-debuginfo-1.5.17-11.amzn2.x86_64