Medium: ibus

Issue Overview:

A flaw was discovered in ibus 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. (CVE-2019-14822)

Affected Packages:

ibus

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 ibus to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    ibus-1.5.17-11.amzn2.aarch64  
    ibus-libs-1.5.17-11.amzn2.aarch64  
    ibus-gtk2-1.5.17-11.amzn2.aarch64  
    ibus-gtk3-1.5.17-11.amzn2.aarch64  
    ibus-devel-1.5.17-11.amzn2.aarch64  
    ibus-debuginfo-1.5.17-11.amzn2.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    ibus-1.5.17-11.amzn2.i686  
    ibus-libs-1.5.17-11.amzn2.i686  
    ibus-gtk2-1.5.17-11.amzn2.i686  
    ibus-gtk3-1.5.17-11.amzn2.i686  
    ibus-devel-1.5.17-11.amzn2.i686  
    ibus-debuginfo-1.5.17-11.amzn2.i686  
  
noarch:  
    ibus-setup-1.5.17-11.amzn2.noarch  
    ibus-pygtk2-1.5.17-11.amzn2.noarch  
    ibus-devel-docs-1.5.17-11.amzn2.noarch  
  
src:  
    ibus-1.5.17-11.amzn2.src  
  
x86_64:  
    ibus-1.5.17-11.amzn2.x86_64  
    ibus-libs-1.5.17-11.amzn2.x86_64  
    ibus-gtk2-1.5.17-11.amzn2.x86_64  
    ibus-gtk3-1.5.17-11.amzn2.x86_64  
    ibus-devel-1.5.17-11.amzn2.x86_64  
    ibus-debuginfo-1.5.17-11.amzn2.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2019-14822

Mitre: CVE-2019-14822