Ubuntu 10.10 : language-selector vulnerability (USN-1115-1)

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. Note that Tenable Network...

[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...