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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-07-02T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T08:52:49.775Z

Reserved: 2018-07-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-13054

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-07-02T14:29:00.213

Modified: 2018-09-04T17:02:30.110

Link: CVE-2018-13054

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