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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published: 2013-10-03T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T14:49:20.658Z

Reserved: 2013-01-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2013-1066

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2013-10-03T21:55:03.960

Modified: 2017-08-29T01:33:08.760

Link: CVE-2013-1066

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