CVE-2011-4406

Severity

36%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

81%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2014-04-16 18:37:00

Last updated 10 years ago

2014-04-17 14:33:00

Affected Software

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 11.10

11.10

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

USN-1351-1

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