[ubuntu/focal-security] accountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.4 (Accepted)

Marc Deslauriers marc.deslauriers at canonical.com
Tue Nov 3 15:07:29 UTC 2020


accountsservice (0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.4) focal-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: accountsservice drop privileges SIGSTOP DoS
    (LP: #1900255)
    - debian/patches/0010-set-language.patch: updated to not drop real uid
      and real gid in user_drop_privileges_to_user.
    - debian/patches/0009-language-tools.patch: updated to not reset
      effective uid.
    - CVE-2020-16126
  * SECURITY UPDATE: accountsservice .pam_environment infinite loop
    (LP: #1900255)
    - debian/patches/0010-set-language.patch: updated to use O_NOFOLLOW
      and limit the number of lines read from file.
    - CVE-2020-16127

Date: 2020-11-02 17:51:27.456084+00:00
Changed-By: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers at canonical.com>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.4
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