CVE-2017-15131
First published: Wed May 24 2017(Updated: )
It was found that system umask policy is not being honored when creating XDG user directories, since Xsession sources xdg-user-dirs.sh before setting umask policy. This only affects xdg-user-dirs before 0.15.5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Freedesktop Xdg-user-dirs | <0.15.5 | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | =7.0 |
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Reference Links
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0842
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1412762
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1412762
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1455095
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1455096
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1455094
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