USN-3894-1: GNOME Keyring vulnerability
gnome-keyring vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary
GNOME Keyring could be made to expose sensitive information.
Software Description
- gnome-keyring – GNOME keyring services
Details
It was discovered that GNOME Keyring incorrectly cleared out credentials
supplied to the PAM module. A local attacker could possibly use this issue
to discover login credentials.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- gnome-keyring – 3.18.3-0ubuntu2.1
- libpam-gnome-keyring – 3.18.3-0ubuntu2.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- gnome-keyring – 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.4
- libpam-gnome-keyring – 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.4
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make
all the necessary changes.
References
Source: USN-3894-1: GNOME Keyring vulnerability
