Race condition vulnerability in user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb function in AccountsService before 0.6.22 allows local users to read arbitrary files.

CVE-2012-2737 · LOW Severity

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

The user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb function in /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon in AccountsService before 0.6.22 does not properly check the UID when copying an icon file to the system cache directory, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a race condition.

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