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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD3.3 Low

CVE-2020-16126

accountsservice drops ruid, allows unprivileged users to send it signals

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
canonical

Description

An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, improperly dropped the ruid, allowing untrusted users to send signals to AccountService, thus stopping it from handling D-Bus messages in a timely fashion.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Freedesktop accountsservice

  • 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.3 to < 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.3+esm2affected
  • 0.6.40-2ubuntu11 to < 0.6.40-2ubuntu11.6affected
  • 0.6.45-1ubuntu1 to < 0.6.45-1ubuntu1.3affected
  • 0.6.55-0ubuntu to < 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.4affected
  • 0.6.55-0ubuntu13 to < 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2affected

References