Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : Cinnamon vulnerability (USN-4844-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4844-1 advisory. Matthias Gerstner discovered that the cinnamon-settings-users utility in Cinnamon did not safely handle symlinks. An unprivileged attacker could...