Moderate: ibus and glib2 security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: ibus and glib2 security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for glib2 and ibus is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1717958 - CVE-2019-14822 ibus: missing authorization allows local attacker to access the input bus of another user
• BZ - 1777213 - IBUS input methods don't work in QT5-based applications

CVEs

• CVE-2019-14822

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index