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Mageia: 2019-0063 Moderate: Cinnamon Icon Configuration Flaw

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 . MGASA-2019-0063 - Updated cinnamon packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 13 Feb 2019 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0063.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 6 CVE: CVE-2018-13054 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/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./thread/XSADMZDE26IBCLBJOASR5ZX4E2OKKPVD/ - - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-13054 SRPMS: - 6/core/cinnamon-3.2.8-4.1.mga6 . MGASA-2019-0063 - Updated cinnamon packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 13 Feb 2019. found, cinnamon, through, cinnamon-settings-users. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Feb 13, 2019 Mageia