CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1174
3.3 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-07-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
The rm_rf_children function in util.c in the systemd-logind login manager in systemd before 44, when logging out, allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified files, related to "particular records related with user session."
Affected configurations
• linux systemd 43
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=5ebff5337594d690b322078c512eb222d34aaa82 Exploit, Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079075.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:030 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/16/21 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803358 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=5ebff5337594d690b322078c512eb222d34aaa82 Exploit, Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079075.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:030 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/16/21 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803358 bugzilla.redhat.com