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USN-1115-1: language-selector vulnerability

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USN-1115-1: language-selector vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/02/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

dbus_backend/lsd.py in the D-Bus backend in language-selector before 0.6.7 does not validate the arguments to the (1) SetSystemDefaultLangEnv and (2) SetSystemDefaultLanguageEnv functions, which allows local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in a string argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0729.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-language-selector-common

References

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