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.
CVSS 2.0
Severity: MEDIUM
Problem Type: CWE-264,
Products Affected
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.10 |
| ubuntu_developers | language-selector | 0.90 |
| ubuntu_developers | language-selector | 0.79 |
| ubuntu_developers | language-selector | 0.79.3 |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 13.04 |
| ubuntu_developers | language-selector | 0.79.1 |
| ubuntu_developers | language-selector | 0.110 |
| ubuntu_developers | language-selector | 0.79.2 |