CVE-2013-1066

Publication date 18 September 2013

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

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.

Status

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No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
language-selector	13.04 raring	Fixed 0.110.1
	12.10 quantal	Fixed 0.90.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 0.79.4
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not affected

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References

MITRE
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Launchpad
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Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-1958-1
language-selector vulnerability
18 September 2013

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-1066