vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2017-15131: Low: xdg-user-dirs security and bug fix update (RHSA-2018:0842)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Jan 9, 2018 | Apr 11, 2018 | Jul 9, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 9, 2018
Added
Apr 11, 2018
Modified
Jul 9, 2025
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
no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-xdg-user-dirsredhat-upgrade-xdg-user-dirs-debuginfo
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