Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xorg-server Open this link in a new tab
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.42% (87th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-XORGSERVER-453164
- published 17 May 2019
- disclosed 17 May 2019
Introduced: 17 May 2019
CVE-2018-20839 Open this link in a new tabAmendment
The Debian
security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:9
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xorg-server
package and not the xorg-server
package as distributed by Debian
.
systemd 242 changes the VT1 mode upon a logout, which allows attackers to read cleartext passwords in certain circumstances, such as watching a shutdown, or using Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-F2. This occurs because the KDGKBMODE (aka current keyboard mode) check is mishandled.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20839
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/9725f1a10f80f5e0ae7d9b60547458622aeb322f
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/12378
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1803993
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772@%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190530-0002/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108389
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-20839
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E