USN-4134-1: IBus vulnerability
USN-4134-1: IBus vulnerability ibus vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary IBus would allow local users to capture key strokes of other locally logged in users. Software Description ibus – Intelligent Input Bus – core Details 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. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.04 ibus – 1.5.19-1ubuntu2.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ibus – 1.5.17-3ubuntu5.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ibus – 1.5.11-1ubuntu2.2 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need [ more… ]