RHSA-2022:5257 — Security Advisory

An update for libinput is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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.

libinput is a library that handles input devices for display servers and other applications that need to directly deal with input devices.

Security Fix(es):

• libinput: format string vulnerability may lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-1215)

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.