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/.
Affected products
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n/aaffected
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00030.html ↗
- 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 ↗
- http://www.osvdb.org/79768 ↗