CVE-2012-0871

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Source

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0871

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2012-0871.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2012-0871

Downstream

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0871

Published

2014-04-18T14:55:25Z

Modified

2025-08-09T19:01:27Z

Summary

[none]

Details

The sessionlinkx11_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/.

References

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747154
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795853
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=fc3c1c6e091ea16ad5600b145201ec535bbb5d7c
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00030.html
http://www.osvdb.org/79768

CVE-2012-0871

Affected packages