Local Privilege Escalation via D-Bus Backend in language-selector

CVE-2011-0729 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

dbus_backend/ls-dbus-backend in the D-Bus backend in language-selector before 0.6.7 does not restrict access on the basis of a PolicyKit check result, which allows local users to modify the /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment files via a (1) SetSystemDefaultLangEnv or (2) SetSystemDefaultLanguageEnv call.

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