Product Errata

RLSA-2020:1766

Moderate: GNOME security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Topic

An update is available for mozjs52, gnome-tweaks, clutter, gnome-menus, mozjs60, baobab.

This update affects Rocky Linux 8.

A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Description

GNOME is the default desktop environment of Rocky Linux.

Security Fix(es):

* LibRaw: stack-based buffer overflow in the parse_makernote function of dcraw_common.cpp (CVE-2018-20337)

* gdm: lock screen bypass when timed login is enabled (CVE-2019-3825)

* gvfs: mishandling of file ownership in daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c (CVE-2019-12447)

* gvfs: race condition in daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c due to admin backend not implementing query_info_on_read/write (CVE-2019-12448)

* gvfs: mishandling of file's user and group ownership in daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c due to unavailability of root privileges (CVE-2019-12449)

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 Rocky Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.