PT-2014-2209 · Systemd · Systemd

Sebastian Krahmer · Published 2014-04-18 · Updated 2022-01-28 · CVE-2012-0871

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions systemd versions prior to 37

Description The issue allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the X11 user directory in /run/user/. This is due to a problem in the session link x11 socket function in login/logind-session.c in systemd-logind.

Recommendations For versions prior to 37, update to version 37 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-0871

Affected Products

Systemd

References · 9

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-0871 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0871 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00030.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0871 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0871 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795853 · Note
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747154 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/79768 · Note
• http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=fc3c1c6e091ea16ad5600b145201ec535bbb5d7c · Note