Privilege Escalation via Language Settings in Ubuntu AccountsService Package

CVE-2011-4406 · LOW Severity

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

The Ubuntu AccountsService package before 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1.1 does not properly drop privileges when changing language settings, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

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