Security Advisory

CVE-2013-1066

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-10-03 21:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 14:49:20

Assigner canonical

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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