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Debian 8 Jessie DLA-1420-1 Critical: Cinnamon Symlink Overwrite Risk

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Calendar Grey July 13, 2018
Scroller Debian Lts
Enhance cinnamon to mitigate symlink vulnerability permitting file replacement. Security patch for Debian 8 'Jessie'.
It was discovered that there was a symlink attack in the Cinnamon desktop environment
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Summary

For Debian 8 "Jessie", this issue has been fixed in cinnamon version
2.2.16-5+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cinnamon packages.


Regards,

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Package: cinnamon
Version: 2.2.16-5+deb8u1
CVE ID: CVE-2018-13054
Debian Bug: #903201

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