RHSA-2020:1766 — Security Advisory

An update for GNOME is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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.

GNOME is the default desktop environment of Red Hat Enterprise 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.