Mageia: 2019-0063 Moderate: Cinnamon Icon Configuration Flaw
mageia
February 13, 2019
A flaw was found in Cinnamon 1.9.2 through 3.8.6
Summary
A flaw was found in Cinnamon 1.9.2 through 3.8.6. The
cinnamon-settings-users.py GUI runs as root and allows configuration of
(for example) other users' icon files in _on_face_browse_menuitem_activated
and _on_face_menuitem_activated. These icon files are written to the
respective user's $HOME/.face location. If an unprivileged user prepares a
symlink pointing to an arbitrary location, then this location will be
overwritten with the icon content (CVE-2018-13054).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23272
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/XSADMZDE26IBCLBJOASR5ZX4E2OKKPVD/
- - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-13054
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/cinnamon-3.2.8-4.1.mga6
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Publication date: 13 Feb 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0063.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-13054
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