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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-15131: Low: xdg-user-dirs security and bug fix update (CESA-2018:0842)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-15131: Low: xdg-user-dirs security and bug fix update (CESA-2018:0842)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/09/2018
Created
08/29/2019
Added
08/28/2019
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-xdg-user-dirs
  • centos-upgrade-xdg-user-dirs-debuginfo

References

  • CVE-2017-15131
  • RHSA-2018:0842

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