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accountsservice: privilege escalation

Package(s):accountsservice CVE #(s):CVE-2011-4406
Created:January 31, 2012 Updated:February 1, 2012
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:

Hayawardh Vijayakumar discovered that AccountsService incorrectly handled privileges when modifying the language settings on Ubuntu. A local attacker could exploit this issue to modify arbitrary files, and possibly create a denial of service or obtain increased privileges.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1351-1 2012-01-31

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