vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2017-15131: Security patch for xdg-user-dirs (ALAS-2018-1030)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 9, 2018
Added
Apr 27, 2020
Modified
Nov 27, 2024

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.

Solutions

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-xdg-user-dirsamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-xdg-user-dirs-debuginfo
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