CVE-2012-0871

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Apr 18, 2014
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jan 19, 2012

Description

The session_link_x11_socket function in login/logind-session.c in systemd-logind in systemd, possibly 37 and earlier, allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the X11 user directory in /run/user/.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

SUSE-SA:2012:001vendor-advisory
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=fc3c1c6e091ea16ad5600b145201ec535bbb5d7c
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795853
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747154
79768vdb-entry

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