RHSA-2022:1814 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for gnome-shell is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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

GNOME Shell acts as a compositing manager for the desktop, and displays both application windows and other objects. It provides core interface functions like switching windows, launching applications, and notifications. It takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts.

Security Fix(es):

• gnome-shell: Password from logged-out user may be shown on login screen (CVE-2020-17489)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from 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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1868418 - CVE-2020-17489 gnome-shell: Password from logged-out user may be shown on login screen
• BZ - 2000918 - Enabled extensions appear on lock screen [rhel-8.6.0]
• BZ - 2025940 - [Bug] gnome-shell errors in syslog

CVEs

• CVE-2020-17489

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.6_release_notes/