Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: GNOME security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for GNOME is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

ALSA-2021:1586 Moderate: GNOME security, bug fix, and enhancement update

GNOME is the default desktop environment of AlmaLinux. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: accountsservice 0.6.55, webkit2gtk3 2.30.4. BZ1846376, BZ1883304 Security Fixes: webkitgtk: type confusion may lead to arbitrary code execution CVE-2020-9948 webkitgtk:...

RLSA-2021:1586 Moderate: GNOME security, bug fix, and enhancement update

GNOME is the default desktop environment of Rocky Linux. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: accountsservice 0.6.55, webkit2gtk3 2.30.4. BZ1846376, BZ1883304 Security Fixes: webkitgtk: type confusion may lead to arbitrary code execution CVE-2020-9948 webkitgtk:...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2019:2778-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Directory Traversal

accountsservice is vulnerable to Directory Traversal. An attacker is able to use ../ sequences because of an insufficient path check in userchangeiconfileauthorizedcb in user.c...

MGASA-2021-0003 Updated gdm packages fix a security vulnerability

Kevin Backhouse discovered that GDM incorrectly launched the initial setup tool when the accountsservice daemon was not reachable. A local attacker able to cause accountsservice to crash or stop responding could trick GDM into launching the initial setup tool and create a privileged user...

Updated gdm packages fix a security vulnerability

Kevin Backhouse discovered that GDM incorrectly launched the initial setup tool when the accountsservice daemon was not reachable. A local attacker able to cause accountsservice to crash or stop responding could trick GDM into launching the initial setup tool and create a privileged user...

Exploit for Improper Privilege Management in Freedesktop Accountsservice

Ubuntu-Gnome-privilege-escalation A bash script exploit of CV...

CVE-2020-16127

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 /.pamenvironment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location...

CVE-2020-16126

An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, improperly dropped the ruid, allowing untrusted users to send signals to AccountService, thus stopping it from handling D-Bus messages in a timely fashion...

CVE-2020-16126

An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, improperly dropped the ruid, allowing untrusted users to send signals to AccountService, thus stopping it from handling D-Bus messages in a timely fashion...

CVE-2020-16127

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 /.pamenvironment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location...

Code injection

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 /.pamenvironment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location...

Design/Logic Flaw

An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, improperly dropped the ruid, allowing untrusted users to send signals to AccountService, thus stopping it from handling D-Bus messages in a timely fashion...

CVE-2020-16126

An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, improperly dropped the ruid, allowing untrusted users to send signals to AccountService, thus stopping it from handling D-Bus messages in a timely fashion...

CVE-2020-16127 accountsservice .pam_environment infinite loop

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 /.pamenvironment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location...

CVE-2020-16126

The CVE-2020-16126 issue affects Ubuntu’s AccountsService in versions older than 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, where an Ubuntu-specific modification dropped the ruid, allowing untrusted users to send signals to AccountsService and hindering its handling of D-Bus messages (denial of service). Remediation: u...

CVE-2020-16126 accountsservice drops ruid, allows unprivileged users to send it signals

An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, improperly dropped the ruid, allowing untrusted users to send signals to AccountService, thus stopping it from handling D-Bus messages in a timely fashion...

CVE-2020-16127

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 /.pamenvironment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location...

CVE-2020-16127

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 /.pamenvironment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location...