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.
References
Configurations
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Information
Published : 2013-10-03 14:55
Updated : 2017-08-28 18:33
NVD link : CVE-2013-1066
Mitre link : CVE-2013-1066
JSON object : View
CWE
CWE-264
Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Products Affected
ubuntu_developers
- language-selector
canonical
- ubuntu_linux