Privilege Escalation via Shell Metacharacters in D-Bus Backend

CVE-2011-1842 · HIGH Severity

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

dbus_backend/lsd.py in the D-Bus backend in language-selector before 0.6.7 does not validate the arguments to the (1) SetSystemDefaultLangEnv and (2) SetSystemDefaultLanguageEnv functions, which allows local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in a string argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0729.

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