Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package accountsservice (opens in a new tab)
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- published6 Nov 2020
- disclosed11 Nov 2020
Introduced: 6 Nov 2020
CVE-2020-16126 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream accountsservice package and not the accountsservice package as distributed by Debian.
An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, improperly dropped the ruid, allowing untrusted users to send signals to AccountService, thus stopping it from handling D-Bus messages in a timely fashion.