CVE-2011-4406 Information

Description

The Ubuntu AccountsService package before 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1.1 does not properly drop privileges when changing language settings which allows local users to modify arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Reference

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/accountsservice/oneiric-updates/revision/21 http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2011/CVE-2011-4406.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1351-1