ubuntu · CVE-2011-0729

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Tracker summary

CVE-2011-0729 high priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (language-selector), 6 status rows across 6 suites (dapper, hardy, karmic, lucid, maverick, upstream): not-affected 4, needs-triage 1, released 1.

Description:

dbus_backend/ls-dbus-backend in the D-Bus backend in language-selector before 0.6.7 does not restrict access on the basis of a PolicyKit check result, which allows local users to modify the /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment files via a (1) SetSystemDefaultLangEnv or (2) SetSystemDefaultLanguageEnv call.