Ubuntu: USN-4616-1 (CVE-2020-16127): AccountsService vulnerabilities
2
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
11/03/2020
11/06/2020
11/04/2020
05/01/2023
Description
An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, would perform unbounded read operations on user-controlled ~/.pam_environment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-accountsservice
- ubuntu-upgrade-libaccountsservice0
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