CVE-2012-0871

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/.

References

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=fc3c1c6e091ea16ad5600b145201ec535bbb5d7c

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00030.html

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747154

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795853

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2