usn-4844-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2021-03-15 22:27
Modified
2026-06-25 10:45
Summary
cinnamon vulnerability
Details

Matthias Gerstner discovered that the cinnamon-settings-users utility in Cinnamon did not safely handle symlinks. An unprivileged attacker could potentially use this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files as root.

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  "id": "USN-4844-1",
  "modified": "2026-06-25T10:45:59Z",
  "published": "2021-03-15T22:27:19Z",
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}



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