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language-selector: local command execution

Package(s):language-selector CVE #(s):CVE-2011-0729
Created:April 20, 2011 Updated:April 20, 2011
Description: A local attacker can make use of an authorization check failure in language-selector's D-Bus backend to run arbitrary commands as root.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1115-1 2011-04-19
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