USN-5439-1: AccountsService vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Packages

• accountsservice - query and manipulate user account information

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)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.04

• accountsservice - 22.07.5-2ubuntu1.3
• libaccountsservice0 - 22.07.5-2ubuntu1.3

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all
the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2022-1804