[USN-1115-1] language-selector vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1115-1 April 19, 2011 language-selector vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its...

USN-1115-1: language-selector vulnerability

Romain Perier discovered that the language-selector D-Bus backend did not correctly check for Policy Kit authorizations. A local attacker could exploit this to inject shell commands into the system-wide locale configuration file, leading to root privilege escalation...

CVE-2011-1842

dbusbackend/lsd.py in the D-Bus backend in language-selector before 0.6.7 does not validate the arguments to the 1 SetSystemDefaultLangEnv and 2 SetSystemDefaultLanguageEnv functions, which allows local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in a string argument, a different...