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.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: canonical
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T14:49:20.658Z
Reserved: 2013-01-11T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2013-1066

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2013-10-03T21:55:03.960
Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Link: CVE-2013-1066

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