CVE-2013-1066: Race Condition
First published: Thu Oct 03 2013(Updated: )
language-selector 0.110.x before 0.110.1, 0.90.x before 0.90.1, and 0.79.x before 0.79.4 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.
Credit: security@ubuntu.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu Developers Language-selector | =0.79 | |
| Ubuntu Developers Language-selector | =0.79.1 | |
| Ubuntu Developers Language-selector | =0.79.2 | |
| Ubuntu Developers Language-selector | =0.79.3 | |
| Ubuntu Developers Language-selector | =0.90 | |
| Ubuntu Developers Language-selector | =0.110 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =12.04 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =12.10 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =13.04 |
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Reference Links
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54911
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1958-1
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87379
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.110.1
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.79.4
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.90.1
- agent/author
- agent/event
- agent/references
- agent/type
- agent/weakness
- collector/nvd-index
- vendor/ubuntu developers
- canonical/ubuntu developers language-selector
- version/ubuntu developers language-selector/0.79
- version/ubuntu developers language-selector/0.79.1
- version/ubuntu developers language-selector/0.79.2
- version/ubuntu developers language-selector/0.79.3
- version/ubuntu developers language-selector/0.90
- version/ubuntu developers language-selector/0.110
- vendor/canonical
- canonical/canonical ubuntu linux
- version/canonical ubuntu linux/12.04
- version/canonical ubuntu linux/12.10
- version/canonical ubuntu linux/13.04