1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-5439-1

USN-5439-1: AccountsService vulnerability

Publication date

24 May 2022

Overview

AccountsService could be made to crash or stop responding.

Releases

Packages

Details

Gunnar Hjalmarsson discovered that AccountsService incorrectly dropped
privileges. A local user could possibly use this issue to cause
AccountsService to crash or stop responding, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2022-1804)

Gunnar Hjalmarsson discovered that AccountsService incorrectly dropped
privileges. A local user could possibly use this issue to cause
AccountsService to crash or stop responding, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2022-1804)

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to 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
22.04 jammy accountsservice –  22.07.5-2ubuntu1.3
libaccountsservice0 –  22.07.5-2ubuntu1.3

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