CVE-2011-4406

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Source

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4406

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2011-4406.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2011-4406

Downstream

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4406

Published

2014-04-16T18:37:11Z

Modified

2025-08-09T19:01:28Z

Summary

[none]

Details

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.

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1351-1
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

CVE-2011-4406

Affected packages