Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0060: ibus and glib2 (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0060)

high Nessus Plugin ID 236543

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2022:0060 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2019-14822:
A flaw was discovered in ibus in versions before 1.5.22 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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 236543

File Name: alinux3_sa_2022-0060.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: 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:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ibus-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ibus-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-fam-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-tests, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ibus-wayland, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ibus-setup, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ibus-gtk3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ibus-tests, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ibus-wayland-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ibus-devel-docs, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ibus-desktop-testing, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ibus-gtk3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-doc, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-fam, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ibus-gtk2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ibus-gtk2, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ibus-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-static, cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ibus-libs, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ibus-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:glib2-tests-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ibus, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ibus-tests-debuginfo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Alibaba/release, Host/Alibaba/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/8/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14822

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