{"id":"USN-4134-1","summary":"ibus vulnerability","details":"Simon McVittie discovered that IBus did not enforce appropriate access\ncontrols on its private D-Bus socket. A local unprivileged user who\ndiscovers the IBus socket address of another user could exploit this to\ncapture the key strokes of the other user.\n","modified":"2026-04-22T10:03:40.024525Z","published":"2019-09-16T12:08:04Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14822"],"upstream":["CVE-2019-14822","UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14822"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4134-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14822"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"ibus","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/ibus@1.5.11-1ubuntu2.2?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.5.11-1ubuntu2.2"}]}],"versions":["1.5.10-1ubuntu1","1.5.11-1ubuntu1","1.5.11-1ubuntu2","1.5.11-1ubuntu2.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"gir1.2-ibus-1.0","binary_version":"1.5.11-1ubuntu2.2"},{"binary_name":"ibus","binary_version":"1.5.11-1ubuntu2.2"},{"binary_name":"ibus-gtk","binary_version":"1.5.11-1ubuntu2.2"},{"binary_name":"ibus-gtk3","binary_version":"1.5.11-1ubuntu2.2"},{"binary_name":"ibus-wayland","binary_version":"1.5.11-1ubuntu2.2"},{"binary_name":"libibus-1.0-5","binary_version":"1.5.11-1ubuntu2.2"}]},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"cves":[],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS"},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-4134-1.json"}},{"package":{"name":"ibus","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:18.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/ibus@1.5.17-3ubuntu5.1?arch=source&distro=bionic"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.5.17-3ubuntu5.1"}]}],"versions":["1.5.14-2ubuntu1","1.5.14-3ubuntu1","1.5.17-1ubuntu1","1.5.17-3ubuntu1","1.5.17-3ubuntu3","1.5.17-3ubuntu4","1.5.17-3ubuntu5"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"gir1.2-ibus-1.0","binary_version":"1.5.17-3ubuntu5.1"},{"binary_version":"1.5.17-3ubuntu5.1","binary_name":"ibus"},{"binary_name":"ibus-gtk","binary_version":"1.5.17-3ubuntu5.1"},{"binary_version":"1.5.17-3ubuntu5.1","binary_name":"ibus-gtk3"},{"binary_name":"ibus-wayland","binary_version":"1.5.17-3ubuntu5.1"},{"binary_name":"libibus-1.0-5","binary_version":"1.5.17-3ubuntu5.1"}]},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:18.04:LTS","cves":[]},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-4134-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}