Bug#921816: gvfs: CVE-2019-3827: Incorrect authorization in admin backend allows privileged users to read and modify arbitrary files without prompting for password

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: gvfs
Version: 1.38.1-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/issues/355
Control: found -1 1.30.4-1

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for gvfs.

CVE-2019-3827[0]:
|Incorrect authorization in admin backend allows privileged users to
|read and modify arbitrary files without prompting for password

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-3827
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-3827
[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/issues/355

Regards,
Salvatore