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CVE-2020-16126

accountsservice drops ruid, allows unprivileged users to send it signals PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, improperly dropped the ruid, allowing untrusted users to send signals to AccountService, thus stopping it from handling D-Bus messages in a timely fashion.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Freedesktop / accountsserviceaffected 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.3 before 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.3+esm2; affected 0.6.40-2ubuntu11 before 0.6.40-2ubuntu11.6; affected 0.6.45-1ubuntu1 before 0.6.45-1ubuntu1.3; affected 0.6.55-0ubuntu before 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.4; affected 0.6.55-0ubuntu13 before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2

CWE

CWE-269

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.