cve-2012-0871
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-04-18 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 18:38
Severity ?
Summary
The session_link_x11_socket function in login/logind-session.c in systemd-logind in systemd, possibly 37 and earlier, allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the X11 user directory in /run/user/.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=fc3c1c6e091ea16ad5600b145201ec535bbb5d7c
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00030.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.osvdb.org/79768
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747154
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795853
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=fc3c1c6e091ea16ad5600b145201ec535bbb5d7c
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00030.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.osvdb.org/79768
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747154
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795853
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