Debian DSA-4525-1 : ibus - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 129026

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Simon McVittie reported a flaw in ibus, the Intelligent Input Bus. Due to a misconfiguration during the setup of the DBus, any unprivileged user could monitor and send method calls to the ibus bus of another user, if able to discover the UNIX socket used by another user connected on a graphical environment. The attacker can take advantage of this flaw to intercept keystrokes of the victim user or modify input related configurations through DBus method calls.

Solution

Upgrade the ibus packages.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.14-3+deb9u2.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.19-4+deb10u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 129026

File Name: debian_DSA-4525.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/19/2019

Updated: 4/24/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14822

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ibus, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14822

DSA: 4525

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