Improper Ownership Management Affecting accountsservice-libs package, versions <0:0.6.50-8.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.33% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-ACCOUNTSSERVICELIBS-1425216
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed29 May 2019

Introduced: 29 May 2019

CVE-2019-12449  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-282  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 accountsservice-libs to version 0:0.6.50-8.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:1766.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream accountsservice-libs package and not the accountsservice-libs package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in GNOME gvfs 1.29.4 through 1.41.2. daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c mishandles a file's user and group ownership during move (and copy with G_FILE_COPY_ALL_METADATA) operations from admin:// to file:// URIs, because root privileges are unavailable.

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