USN-4464-1: GNOME Shell vulnerability

It was discovered that GNOME Shell incorrectly handled the login screen password dialog. Sensitive information could possibly be exposed during user logout...

CVE-2020-17489

An issue was discovered in certain configurations of GNOME gnome-shell through 3.36.4. When logging out of an account, the password box from the login dialog reappears with the password still visible. If the user had decided to have the password shown in cleartext at login time, it is then visibl...

CVE-2020-17489

An issue was discovered in certain configurations of GNOME gnome-shell through 3.36.4. When logging out of an account, the password box from the login dialog reappears with the password still visible. If the user had decided to have the password shown in cleartext at login time, it is then visibl...

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-17489

An issue was discovered in certain configurations of GNOME gnome-shell through 3.36.4. When logging out of an account, the password box from the login dialog reappears with the password still visible. If the user had decided to have the password shown in cleartext at login time, it is then visibl...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-17489

An issue was discovered in certain configurations of GNOME gnome-shell through 3.36.4. When logging out of an account, the password box from the login dialog reappears with the password still visible. If the user had decided to have the password shown in cleartext at login time, it is then visibl...

Default credentials

An issue was discovered in certain configurations of GNOME gnome-shell through 3.36.4. When logging out of an account, the password box from the login dialog reappears with the password still visible. If the user had decided to have the password shown in cleartext at login time, it is then visibl...

CVE-2020-17489

CVE-2020-17489 affects GNOME Shell (gnome-shell) up to 3.36.4. The issue: when logging out of an account, the login dialog password box may reappear with the password visible if the user previously chose the option to show the password in cleartext at login, exposing the password briefly (otherwi...

CVE-2020-17489

An issue was discovered in certain configurations of GNOME gnome-shell through 3.36.4. When logging out of an account, the password box from the login dialog reappears with the password still visible. If the user had decided to have the password shown in cleartext at login time, it is then visibl...

CVE-2020-17489

An issue was discovered in certain configurations of GNOME gnome-shell through 3.36.4. When logging out of an account, the password box from the login dialog reappears with the password still visible. If the user had decided to have the password shown in cleartext at login time, it is then visibl...

CVE-2020-17489

An issue was discovered in certain configurations of GNOME gnome-shell through 3.36.4. When logging out of an account, the password box from the login dialog reappears with the password still visible. If the user had decided to have the password shown in cleartext at login time, it is then visibl...

firefox security update

68.8.0-1.0.1 - fix LDLIBRARYPATH - Add firefox-oracle-default-prefs.js and remove the corresponding Red Hat one Wed Apr 29 2020 Jan Horak - Update to 68.8.0 build1 68.7.0-3 - Added fix for rhbz1821418 68.7.0-2 - Update to 68.7.0 build3 68.6.1-1 - Update to 68.6.1 ESR Wed Mar 04 2020 Jan Horak -...

Updated networkmanager packages fix security vulnerability

It was found that nmcli, a command line interface to NetworkManager did not honour 802-1x.ca-path and 802-1x.phase2-ca-path settings, when creating a new profile. When a user connects to a network using this profile, the authentication does not happen and the connection is made insecurely...

CVE-2020-12825

A stack overflow flaw was found in libcroco. A service using libcroco's CSS parser could be crashed by a local, authenticated attacker, or an attacker utilizing social engineering, using a crafted input. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. Mitigation To mitigate...

GNOME security, bug fix, and enhancement update

accountsservice 0.6.50-8 - Dont set HasNoUsers=true if realmd has providers Related: 1750516 appstream-data 8-20191129 - Regenerate the RHEL metadata to include the latest evince changes - Resolves: 1768461 clutter 1.26.2-8 - rebuild to get the new in 8.2.0 - plus address 1785233 evince 3.28.4-4 ...

Scientific Linux Security Update : GNOME on SL7.x x86_64 (20200407)

gnome-shell: partial lock screen bypass C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid135796; scriptversion"1.3"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate", value:"2024/03/15"; scriptcveid"CVE-2019-3820";...

firefox security update

68.7.0-2.0.1.el81 - Rebuild to pickup Oracle default bookmarks Orabug: 30069264 - Add firefox-oracle-default-prefs.js and remove the corresponding Red Hat file - Remove upstream references Orabug: 30530527 68.7.0-2 - Update to 68.7.0 build3 68.6.1-1 - Update to 68.6.1 ESR Wed Mar 04 2020 Jan Hora...

GNOME security, bug fix, and enhancement update

accountsservice 0.6.50-7 - version bump to prevent future update path introduced by RHBA-2019:45836 Resolves: 1721562 colord 1.3.4-2 - Downgrade a trivial warning to a debug statement - Resolves: 1421231 control-center 3.28.1-6 - Calculate better extents for the configured displays arrangement...

Authentication Bypass

gnome-shell is vulnerable to authentication bypass. The vulnerability exists as it was possible to bypass a partial lock screen...

gnome-shell: partial lock screen bypass

A vulnerability was found where the gnome-shell lock screen, since version 3.15.91, does not properly restrict all contextual actions. An attacker with physical access to a locked workstation could invoke certain keyboard shortcuts and potentially other actions. This vulnerability was fixed in...

Ubuntu 18.04.2 VMs can fail to boot on Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer)

When creating an Ubuntu 18.04.2 or18.04.3VM or updating an existing VM to Ubuntu 18.04.2 or 18.04.3, your VM can fail to boot. The console shows the boot sequence hung at the point "Starting Tool to automatically collect and submit kernel crash signatures..." If you switch the console to shell mo...