CVE-2012-0871: Opensuse

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The session_link_x11_socket function in login/logind-session.c in systemd-logind in systemd, possibly 37 and earlier, allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the X11 user directory in /run/user/.

Affected products

• Opensuse Opensuse: version 12.1 only
• Systemd Project Systemd: up to and including 037; version 1 only; version 2 only; version 3 only; version 4 only; version 5 only; …

Published 2014-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.