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Ubuntu 12.10: USN-1766-1 Moderate: Pam-Xdg-Support Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey March 18, 2013
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Enhance your Ubuntu system's security against the pam-xdg-support vulnerability by updating your packages. Follow these simple steps to protect your system
pam-xdg-support could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Summary

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Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation moderate severity ubuntu pam-xdg-support

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 12.10: libpam-xdg-support 0.2-0ubuntu1.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1766-1

CVE-2013-1052

March 18, 2013

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Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation moderate severity ubuntu pam-xdg-support

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam-xdg-support/0.2-0ubuntu1.1

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