CVE-2020-16126 Information

Description

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.

Reference

https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-187-accountsservice-drop-privs-DOS