Vulnerabilites related to Ubuntu - accountsservice
CVE-2021-3939 (GCVE-0-2021-3939)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-11-17 03:15
Modified
2024-09-16 18:02
CWE
  • CWE-590 - Free of Memory not on the Heap
Summary
Ubuntu-specific modifications to accountsservice (in patch file debian/patches/0010-set-language.patch) caused the fallback_locale variable, pointing to static storage, to be freed, in the user_change_language_authorized_cb function. This is reachable via the SetLanguage dbus function. This is fixed in versions 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.5, 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.3, 0.6.55-0ubuntu14.1.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Ubuntu accountsservice Version: 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04   < 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.5
Version: 0.6.55-0ubuntu13   < 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.3
Version: 0.6.55-0ubuntu14   < 0.6.55-0ubuntu14.1
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