Description
dbus_backend/lsd.py in the D-Bus backend in language-selector before 0.6.7 does not validate the arguments to the (1) SetSystemDefaultLangEnv and (2) SetSystemDefaultLanguageEnv functions, which allows local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in a string argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0729.
References
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/764397
- 44214 third-party-advisory
- http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/packages/show/307975
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.6.7
- ADV-2011-1032 vdb-entry
- languageselector-dbus-priv-esc(67255) vdb-entry
- 47502 vdb-entry
- USN-1115-1 vendor-advisory