CVE-2018-20781
First published: Tue Feb 12 2019(Updated: )
In pam/gkr-pam-module.c in GNOME Keyring before 3.27.2, the user's password is kept in a session-child process spawned from the LightDM daemon. This can expose the credential in cleartext.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Gnome Gnome Keyring | <3.27.2 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =14.04 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =16.04 | |
| Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Kit | =8.8 | |
| ubuntu/gnome-keyring | <3.28.0-1 | 3.28.0-1 |
| ubuntu/gnome-keyring | <3.18.3-0ubuntu2.1 | 3.18.3-0ubuntu2.1 |
| ubuntu/gnome-keyring | <3.10.1-1ubuntu4.4 | 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.4 |
| debian/gnome-keyring | 3.28.2-5 3.36.0-1 42.1-1 42.1-2 |
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Reference Links
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1772919
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781486
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/issues/3
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/tags/3.27.2
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3894-1/
- https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin
- https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin/tree/d95f1e08ce79783794f38433bbf7de5abd9792da
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2018-20781
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20781
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20781
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3894-1
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20781
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/commit/9db67ef6e39ac51d426dee91da3b9305670241e6
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20781
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