GSD-2020-16121

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
Details
PackageKit provided detailed error messages to unprivileged callers that exposed information about file presence and mimetype of files that the user would be unable to determine on its own.
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CVE-2020-16121
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