Vulnerabilities > Ubuntu > Language Selector > 0.4.16

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2011-05-03 CVE-2011-1842 Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Ubuntu Language-Selector
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.
local
low complexity
ubuntu CWE-20
7.2
2011-04-29 CVE-2011-0729 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability in Ubuntu Language-Selector
dbus_backend/ls-dbus-backend in the D-Bus backend in language-selector before 0.6.7 does not restrict access on the basis of a PolicyKit check result, which allows local users to modify the /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment files via a (1) SetSystemDefaultLangEnv or (2) SetSystemDefaultLanguageEnv call.
local
low complexity
ubuntu CWE-264
7.2