The default configuration in mate-settings-daemon 1.5.3 allows local users to change the timezone for the system via a crafted D-Bus call.

Various bugfixes. Fix CVE2012-5560 mate-settings-daemon-1.5.3-3.fc17

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Latest upstream release Fix CVE2012-5560 mate-settings-daemon-1.5.3-3.fc17

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Fix CVE2012-5560

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
64978	Fedora 18 : mate-settings-daemon-1.5.4-3.fc18 (2013-2784)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
64977	Fedora 17 : mate-settings-daemon-1.5.4-3.fc17 (2013-2766)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
63274	Fedora 17 : mate-settings-daemon-1.5.4-1.fc17 (2012-19726)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
63057	Fedora 18 : mate-settings-daemon-1.5.3-5.fc18 (2012-18977)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2012-5560

medium

Tenable Plugins

low

low

low

low