Summary: | CVE-2012-0871 systemd: insecure file creation may lead to elevated privileges | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Vincent Danen <vdanen> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | jlieskov, lpoetter, mschmidt, scorneli, security-response-team |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2012-03-22 12:38:29 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
Bug Depends On: | 799086 | ||
Bug Blocks: | Embargoed795857 |
Description
Vincent Danen
2012-02-21 16:28:44 UTC
Sebastian indicated that the following git commit removes the X11/ directory, rendering this ineffective, although it's not known whether this fixes the flaw fully, or simply renders this one avenue ineffective. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=fc3c1c6e091ea16ad5600b145201ec535bbb5d7c This is public now: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00030.html SUSE bug report: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747154 Created systemd tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 799086] systemd-37-15.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |