USN-1351-1: AccountsService vulnerability
4
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
01/31/2012
07/25/2018
01/31/2012
07/09/2020
Description
The Ubuntu AccountsService package before 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1.1 does not properly drop privileges when changing language settings, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-accountsservice
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