Advisories » MGASA-2019-0063

Updated cinnamon packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 13 Feb 2019
Modification date: 13 Feb 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2018-13054

Description

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/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/XSADMZDE26IBCLBJOASR5ZX4E2OKKPVD/
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2018-07/msg00083.html
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-13054

SRPMS

6/core

• cinnamon-3.2.8-4.1.mga6