| Name | CVE-2019-14822 |
| Description | A flaw was discovered in ibus in versions before 1.5.22 that allows any unprivileged user to monitor and send method calls to the ibus bus of another user due to a misconfiguration in the DBus server setup. A local attacker may use this flaw to intercept all keystrokes of a victim user who is using the graphical interface, change the input method engine, or modify other input related configurations of the victim user. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-4525-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 940267 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ibus (PTS) | bullseye | 1.5.23-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.5.27-5 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.5.31-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[jessie] - ibus <ignored> (Hard to exploit, regression risk)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/13/1
Fixed by: https://github.com/ibus/ibus/commit/3d442dbf936d197aa11ca0a71663c2bc61696151
The original fix introduces regression with Qt applications (the fix uncovered an
interoperability bug between GLib's implementation of D-Bus and the reference implementation
libdbus):
https://bugs.debian.org/941018
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1844853
https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/2137