Vulnerability CVE-2013-1066
Published: 2013-10-03   Modified: 2013-10-04

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Ubuntu developers -> Language-selector 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.90.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.79.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.110.1
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/87379
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1958-1
http://secunia.com/advisories/54911
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