CVE-2017-15131
It was found that system umask policy is not being honored when creating XDG user directories, since Xsession sources xdg-user-dirs.sh befor
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- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
Summary
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.
Timeline
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Affected versions
- Red Hat, Inc. RHEL shipped xdg-user-dirs and gnome-session
before 0.15-5