Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package cinnamon  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-CINNAMON-651168
  • published11 Jul 2018
  • disclosed2 Jul 2018

Introduced: 2 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-13054  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cinnamon package and not the cinnamon package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.