USN-3894-1: GNOME Keyring vulnerability

26 February 2019

GNOME Keyring could be made to expose sensitive information.

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Releases

Packages

Details

It was discovered that GNOME Keyring incorrectly cleared out credentials
supplied to the PAM module. A local attacker could possibly use this issue
to discover login credentials.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make
all the necessary changes.

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