Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xorg Open this link in a new tab
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.09% (38th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-XORG-327217
- published 27 Jun 2018
- disclosed 21 Feb 2020
Introduced: 27 Jun 2018
CVE-2012-1093 Open this link in a new tabAmendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xorg package and not the xorg package as distributed by Ubuntu.
The init script in the Debian x11-common package before 1:7.6+12 is vulnerable to a symlink attack that can lead to a privilege escalation during package installation.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-1093
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1093
- http://vladz.devzero.fr/012_x11-common-vuln.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772@%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/29/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/01/1
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1093
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E