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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2017-15131) ELSA-2018-0842: xdg-user-dirs security and bug fix update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2017-15131) ELSA-2018-0842: xdg-user-dirs security and bug fix update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/09/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/19/2018
Modified
05/03/2019

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)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-xdg-user-dirs

References

  • ELSA-2018-0842
  • RHSA-2018:0842
  • CVE-2017-15131

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