An issue was discovered in Cinnamon 1.9.2 through 3.8.6. The cinnamon-settings-users.py GUI runs as root and allows configuration of (for example) other users' icon files in _on_face_browse_menuitem_activated and _on_face_menuitem_activated. These icon files are written to the respective user's $HOME/.face location. If an unprivileged user prepares a symlink pointing to an arbitrary location, then this location will be overwritten with the icon content.
References
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https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083067 | Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/pull/7683 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00011.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-07-02T14:00:00
Updated: 2018-07-14T09:57:01
Reserved: 2018-07-02T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-13054
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2018-07-02T14:29:00.213
Modified: 2018-09-04T17:02:30.110
Link: CVE-2018-13054
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