CVE-2013-1066 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/54911 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1958-1 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87379 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.110.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.79.4 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.90.1