CVE-2020-16127

Publication date

2020-11-11 04:10:15

Family

canonical

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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