Amazon Linux 2 : xdg-user-dirs (ALAS-2018-1030)

It was found that the system umask policy is not being honored when creating XDG user directories /Desktop etc on first login. This could lead to user's files being inadvertently exposed to other local users.CVE-2017-15131 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks i...

CentOS 7 : xdg-user-dirs (CESA-2018:0842)

An update for xdg-user-dirs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from t...

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 before setting umask policy. This only affects xdg-user-dirs before 0.15.5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux...