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Race Condition Affecting gnome-tweaks package, versions <0:3.28.1-7.el8

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.78% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-GNOMETWEAKS-3734813
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed29 May 2019
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Introduced: 29 May 2019

CVE-2019-12448  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-364  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 gnome-tweaks to version 0:3.28.1-7.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:1766.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnome-tweaks package and not the gnome-tweaks package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in GNOME gvfs 1.29.4 through 1.41.2. daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c has race conditions because the admin backend doesn't implement query_info_on_read/write.

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