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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-6592 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:50:16.341Z

Reserved: 2017-10-08T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-15131

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-01-09T21:29:00.373

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:14:07.993

Link: CVE-2017-15131

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-01-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-15131 - Bugzilla

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