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USN-1485-1: AccountsService vulnerability

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USN-1485-1: AccountsService vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/22/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

The user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb function in /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon in AccountsService before 0.6.22 does not properly check the UID when copying an icon file to the system cache directory, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a race condition.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-accountsservice
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libaccountsservice0

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