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CVE-2012-0871

CVE-2012-0871

EPSS 0.4%
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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References
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=fc3c1c6e091ea16ad5600b145201ec535bbb5d7chttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00030.htmlhttps://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747154https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795853http://www.osvdb.org/79768