RHSA-2021:0266 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for gnome-settings-daemon is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The gnome-settings-daemon packages contain a daemon to share settings from GNOME to other applications. It also handles global key bindings, as well as a number of desktop-wide settings.

Security Fix(es):

• gnome-settings-daemon: Red Hat Customer Portal password logged and passed as command line argument when user registers through GNOME control center (CVE-2020-14391)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1873093 - CVE-2020-14391 gnome-settings-daemon: Red Hat Customer Portal password logged and passed as command line argument when user registers through GNOME control center

CVEs

• CVE-2020-14391

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate