Ubuntu Security Notice 4616-2 - USN-4616-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in AccountsService. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Kevin Backhouse discovered that AccountsService incorrectly dropped privileges. A local user could possibly use this issue to cause AccountsService to crash or hang, resulting in a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.
c9216581f5de523b400633aa67702df5e25d8a27bc72211d40ce7e59b2eca0a1Ubuntu Security Notice 4616-1 - Kevin Backhouse discovered that AccountsService incorrectly dropped privileges. A local user could possibly use this issue to cause AccountsService to crash or hang, resulting in a denial of service. Kevin Backhouse discovered that AccountsService incorrectly handled reading .pam_environment files. A local user could possibly use this issue to cause AccountsService to crash or hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.10. Various other issues were also addressed.
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