CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-4406
3.6 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-04-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
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.
Affected configurations
• canonical accountsservice (<= 0.6.14)
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.10
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/accountsservice/oneiric-updates/revision/21 Patch
- http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2011/CVE-2011-4406.html people.canonical.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1351-1 Vendor Advisory
- http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/accountsservice/oneiric-updates/revision/21 Patch
- http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2011/CVE-2011-4406.html people.canonical.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1351-1 Vendor Advisory