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

• CVE-2018-20781

from Ubuntu Security Notices https://ift.tt/2U9h1J4