Security Advisory

CVE-2012-0871

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-04-18 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 18:38:14
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

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/.