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Ubuntu: USN-4616-1 (CVE-2020-16127): AccountsService vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4616-1 (CVE-2020-16127): AccountsService vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/03/2020
Created
11/06/2020
Added
11/04/2020
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, would perform unbounded read operations on user-controlled ~/.pam_environment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location.

Solution(s)

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

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