CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1066
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-10-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
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.
Affected configurations
• ubuntu developers language-selector 0.79
• ubuntu developers language-selector 0.79.1
• ubuntu developers language-selector 0.79.2
• ubuntu developers language-selector 0.79.3
• ubuntu developers language-selector 0.90
• ubuntu developers language-selector 0.110
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 13.04
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54911 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1958-1 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87379 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.110.1 Patch
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.79.4 Patch
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.90.1 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54911 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1958-1 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87379 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.110.1 Patch
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.79.4 Patch
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.90.1 Patch