Comment 6 for bug 1900255

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package accountsservice - 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.4

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accountsservice (0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.4) focal-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: accountsservice drop privileges SIGSTOP DoS
    (LP: #1900255)
    - debian/patches/0010-set-language.patch: updated to not drop real uid
      and real gid in user_drop_privileges_to_user.
    - debian/patches/0009-language-tools.patch: updated to not reset
      effective uid.
    - CVE-2020-16126
  * SECURITY UPDATE: accountsservice .pam_environment infinite loop
    (LP: #1900255)
    - debian/patches/0010-set-language.patch: updated to use O_NOFOLLOW
      and limit the number of lines read from file.
    - CVE-2020-16127

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Mon, 02 Nov 2020 12:03:54 -0500