Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package accountsservice  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-ACCOUNTSSERVICE-1037583
  • published6 Nov 2020
  • disclosed11 Nov 2020

Introduced: 6 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-16127  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:11.

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, would perform unbounded read operations on user-controlled ~/.pam_environment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location.