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.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu | 10.10 | noarch | language-selector-common | < 0.6.7 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 10.10 | noarch | language-selector | < 0.6.7 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 10.10 | noarch | language-selector-qt | < 0.6.7 | UNKNOWN |