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Improper Access Control The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xdg-user-dirs  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-XDGUSERDIRS-347445
  • published9 Jan 2018
  • disclosed9 Jan 2018
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Introduced: 9 Jan 2018

CVE-2017-15131  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xdg-user-dirs package and not the xdg-user-dirs package as distributed by Ubuntu.

It was found that system umask policy is not being honored when creating XDG user directories, since Xsession sources xdg-user-dirs.sh before setting umask policy. This only affects xdg-user-dirs before 0.15.5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.