Security Advisory

CVE-2012-2737

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-07-22 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 19:42:32
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb function in /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon in AccountsService before 0.6.22 does not properly check the UID when copying an icon file to the system cache directory, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a race condition.