Bug 1455094 (CVE-2017-15131) - CVE-2017-15131 xdg-user-dirs, gnome-session: Xsession creation of XDG user directories does not honor system umask policy
Summary: CVE-2017-15131 xdg-user-dirs, gnome-session: Xsession creation of XDG user di...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-15131
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1455095 1455096 1532915
Blocks: 1455099 1498774
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-05-24 09:22 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:13:24 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0842 0 None None None 2018-04-10 08:25:45 UTC

Description Adam Mariš 2017-05-24 09:22:13 UTC 
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.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1412762
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-05-24 09:22:34 UTC 
Created gnome-session tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1455095]


Created xdg-user-dirs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1455096]
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 08:25:39 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:0842 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0842
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