An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 29, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Nov 11, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Last updated
Jan 29, 2023
An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, would perform unbounded read operations on user-controlled ~/.pam_environment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location.
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