Package        : cinnamon
Version        : 2.2.16-5+deb8u1
CVE ID         : CVE-2018-13054
Debian Bug     : #903201

It was discovered that there was a symlink attack in the Cinnamon
desktop environment.

An attacker could overwrite an arbitrary file on the filesystem via
a $HOME/.face icon file (as the cinnamon-settings-users.py GUI runs
as root).

For Debian 8 "Jessie", this issue has been fixed in cinnamon version
2.2.16-5+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cinnamon packages.


Regards,

- -- 
      ,''`.
     : :'  :     Chris Lamb
     `. `'`      lamby@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk
       `-

Debian LTS: DLA-1420-1: cinnamon security update

July 13, 2018
It was discovered that there was a symlink attack in the Cinnamon desktop environment

Summary

For Debian 8 "Jessie", this issue has been fixed in cinnamon version
2.2.16-5+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cinnamon packages.


Regards,

- --
,''`.
: :' : Chris Lamb
`. `'` lamby@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk
`-



Severity
Package : cinnamon
Version : 2.2.16-5+deb8u1
CVE ID : CVE-2018-13054
Debian Bug : #903201

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