Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package accountsservice (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published3 Nov 2020
- disclosed11 Nov 2020
Introduced: 3 Nov 2020
CVE-2020-16127 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream accountsservice package and not the accountsservice package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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.