Description
In pam/gkr-pam-module.c in GNOME Keyring before 3.27.2, the user's password is kept in a session-child process spawned from the LightDM daemon. This can expose the credential in cleartext.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3894-1/ ↗
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html ↗
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/tags/3.27.2 ↗
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/issues/3 ↗
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1772919 ↗
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781486 ↗
- https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin/tree/d95f1e08ce79783794f38433bbf7de5abd9792da ↗
- https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin ↗