Medium: gnome-shell

Issue Overview:

It was discovered that the gnome-shell lock screen since version 3.15.91 did not properly restrict all contextual actions. An attacker with physical access to a locked workstation could invoke certain keyboard shortcuts, and potentially other actions. (CVE-2019-3820)

Affected Packages:

gnome-shell

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update gnome-shell to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    gnome-shell-3.28.3-24.amzn2.aarch64  
    gnome-shell-debuginfo-3.28.3-24.amzn2.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    gnome-shell-3.28.3-24.amzn2.i686  
    gnome-shell-debuginfo-3.28.3-24.amzn2.i686  
  
src:  
    gnome-shell-3.28.3-24.amzn2.src  
  
x86_64:  
    gnome-shell-3.28.3-24.amzn2.x86_64  
    gnome-shell-debuginfo-3.28.3-24.amzn2.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2019-3820

Mitre: CVE-2019-3820