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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2018-0842 Low xdg-user-dirs Security Fix

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Calendar Grey April 10, 2018
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Red Hat announces an xdg-user-dirs patch with minimal security risk and important bug resolutions for Enterprise Linux 7.
An update for xdg-user-dirs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

xdg-user-dirs is a tool to create and configure default desktop user directories such as the Music and the Desktop directories.
Security Fix(es):
* xdg-user-dirs, gnome-session: Xsession creation of XDG user directories does not honor system umask policy (CVE-2017-15131)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity xdg-user-dirs

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15131 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.5_release_notes/index.html

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: xdg-user-dirs-0.15-5.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: xdg-user-dirs-0.15-5.el7.x86_64.rpm xdg-user-dirs-debuginfo-0.15-5.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: xdg-user-dirs-0.15-5.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: xdg-user-dirs-0.15-5.el7.x86_64.rpm xdg-user-dirs-debuginfo-0.15-5.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: xdg-user-dirs-0.15-5.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: xdg-user-dirs-0.15-5.el7.ppc64.rpm xdg-user-dirs-debuginfo-0.15-5.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: xdg-user-dirs-0.15-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm xdg-user-dirs-debuginfo-0.15-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: xdg-user-dirs-0.15-5.el7.s390x.rpm xdg-user-dirs-debuginfo-0.15-5.el7.s390x.rpm
x86_64: xdg-user-dirs-0.15-5.el7.x86_64.rpm xdg-user-dirs-debuginfo-0.15-5.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7):
Source: xdg-user-dirs-0.15-5.el7.src.rpm
aarch64: xdg-user-dirs-0.15-5.el7.aarch64.rpm xdg-user-dirs-debuginfo-0.15-5.el7.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: xdg-user-dirs-0.15-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm xdg-user-dirs-debuginfo-0.15-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: xdg-user-dirs-0.15-5.el7.s390x.rpm xdg-user-dirs-debuginfo-0.15-5.el7.s390x.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: xdg-user-dirs-0.15-5.el7.src.rpm
x86_64:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0842-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0842
Issue date: 2018-04-10

Topic

An update for xdg-user-dirs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity xdg-user-dirs

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x

Bugs Fixed

1412762 - Xsession creation of XDG user directories does not honor system umask policy

1455094 - CVE-2017-15131 xdg-user-dirs, gnome-session: Xsession creation of XDG user directories does not honor system umask policy

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