Security Advisory

CVE-2011-1842

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-05-03 00:03:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 22:37:26
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

dbus_backend/lsd.py in the D-Bus backend in language-selector before 0.6.7 does not validate the arguments to the (1) SetSystemDefaultLangEnv and (2) SetSystemDefaultLanguageEnv functions, which allows local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in a string argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0729.