Executive Summary

Summary
Title gnome-desktop vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3994-1 First vendor Publication 2019-05-27
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-05-27
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 19.04 - Ubuntu 18.10 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary:

gnome-desktop could be made to escape the thumbnailer sandbox.

Software Description: - gnome-desktop3: Introspection data for GnomeDesktop

Details:

It was discovered that gnome-desktop incorrectly confined thumbnailers. If a user were tricked into downloading a malicious image file, a remote attacker could possibly combine this issue with another vulnerability to escape the sandbox and execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04:
libgnome-desktop-3-17 3.32.1-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 18.10:
libgnome-desktop-3-17 3.30.1-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
libgnome-desktop-3-17 3.28.2-0ubuntu1.3

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3994-1
CVE-2019-11460

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-desktop3/3.32.1-1ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-desktop3/3.30.1-1ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-desktop3/3.28.2-0ubuntu1.3

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3994-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3

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Date Informations
2020-03-19 13:20:11
  • First insertion