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usn-4616-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2020-11-03 15:16
Modified
2026-04-22 07:36
Summary
accountsservice vulnerabilities
Details

Kevin Backhouse discovered that AccountsService incorrectly dropped privileges. A local user could possibly use this issue to cause AccountsService to crash or hang, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-16126)

Kevin Backhouse discovered that AccountsService incorrectly handled reading .pam_environment files. A local user could possibly use this issue to cause AccountsService to crash or hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.10. (CVE-2020-16127)

Matthias Gerstner discovered that AccountsService incorrectly handled certain path checks. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-14036)

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