1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-1766-1

USN-1766-1: pam-xdg-support vulnerability

Publication date

18 March 2013

Overview

pam-xdg-support could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Releases

Packages

Details

Zbigniew Tenerowicz and Sebastian Krzyszkowiak discovered that
pam-xdg-support incorrectly handled the PATH environment variable. A local
attacker could use this issue in combination with sudo to possibly escalate
privileges.

Zbigniew Tenerowicz and Sebastian Krzyszkowiak discovered that
pam-xdg-support incorrectly handled the PATH environment variable. A local
attacker could use this issue in combination with sudo to possibly escalate
privileges.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
12.10 quantal libpam-xdg-support –  0.2-0ubuntu1.1

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