Advisories » MGASA-2021-0003

Updated gdm packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 04 Jan 2021
Modification date: 04 Jan 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-16125

Description

Kevin Backhouse discovered that GDM incorrectly launched the initial setup tool
when the accountsservice daemon was not reachable. A local attacker able to
cause accountsservice to crash or stop responding could trick GDM into
launching the initial setup tool and create a privileged user (CVE-2020-16125).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27566
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4614-1
• https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/ZX3UTGQD6BVLNXN2RQDQJAGIEKRWA7A4/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16125

SRPMS

7/core

• gdm-3.32.0-1.1.mga7