Moderate: libinput security update

Topic

An update for libinput 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

libinput is a library that handles input devices for display servers and other applications that need to directly deal with input devices.

Security Fix(es):

• libinput: format string vulnerability may lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-1215)

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.

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 CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2074952 - CVE-2022-1215 libinput: format string vulnerability may lead to privilege escalation

CVEs

• CVE-2022-1215

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate