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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4134-1

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4134-1
Posted Sep 16, 2019
Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 4134-1 - 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.

tags | advisory, local
systems | linux, ubuntu
advisories | CVE-2019-14822
SHA-256 | ed92e9e046984937207054328dcbba793eb2ef62bdf1c54b81a17f9db3ef13c2

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4134-1

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4134-1
September 16, 2019

ibus vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 19.04
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

IBus would allow local users to capture key strokes of other locally logged
in users.

Software Description:
- ibus: Intelligent Input Bus - core

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.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04:
ibus 1.5.19-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
ibus 1.5.17-3ubuntu5.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
ibus 1.5.11-1ubuntu2.2

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4134-1
CVE-2019-14822

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/1.5.19-1ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/1.5.17-3ubuntu5.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/1.5.11-1ubuntu2.2
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