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USN-1958-1: language-selector vulnerability

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USN-1958-1: language-selector vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/03/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/08/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

language-selector 0.110.x before 0.110.1, 0.90.x before 0.90.1, and 0.79.x before 0.79.4 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-language-selector-common

References

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