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Bug 659912 (CVE-2018-13054)

Summary: <gnome-extra/cinnamon-3.8.8: Symlink attack Vulnerability
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Florian Schuhmacher <mynt1aa>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: ajak, cinnamon+disabled, sparky
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/pull/7683
Whiteboard: B3 [noglsa cve]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 661040, 704532    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Florian Schuhmacher 2018-07-03 05:14:17 UTC 
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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Florian Schuhmacher
Comment 1 John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-07-24 18:16:08 UTC 
Looks like the fix was in-tree by upstream version 4.2.0: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/commit/85b56bb4970ad9b3ab9754f41b08f35e15909b04

We're at 4.4.8, so I guess we're good here? Tree is clean, if so:


commit 397183c7b99af3ee77204fa58d22a70d7b7e8ff6
Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
Date:   Sun May 31 11:45:11 2020 -0700

    gnome-extra/cinnamon: Drop old versions

    Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>

 delete mode 100644 gnome-extra/cinnamon/cinnamon-4.0.3-r2.ebuild
 delete mode 100644 gnome-extra/cinnamon/files/cinnamon-4.0-fix-pillow-settings.patch
Comment 2 Matthew Turnbull 2020-07-29 13:06:12 UTC 
Yeah, Bug 704532 bumped cinnamon to 4.4 and the vulnerable versions were removed by Bug 720190.

Though it looks like the 4.2.0 change simply fixed the ability to edit the .face file which was broken by the original security fix.
Comment 3 John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-06-12 13:05:14 UTC 
Actually, the merged commit at URL is in 3.8.7 and the first version in tree appears to be 3.8.8. Earlier versions have been cleaned up for a long time.
Comment 4 John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-07-06 00:08:01 UTC 
GLSA vote: no. Closing.