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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : IBus vulnerability (USN-4134-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 128967

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4134-1 advisory.

 Simon McVittie discovered that IBus did not enforce appropriate access controls on its private D-Bus socket. A local unprivileged user who discovers the IBus socket address of another user could exploit this to capture the key strokes of the other user.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4134-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 128967

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4134-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2019

Updated: 8/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gir1.2-ibus-1.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libibus-1.0-5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libibus-1.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ibus-wayland, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ibus-gtk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ibus-gtk3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ibus

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/16/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14822

USN: 4134-1