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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS USN-5439-1 Critical: AccountsService Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey May 24, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The AccountsService on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS may suffer from a vulnerability related to permissions, potentially causing a denial of service. Ensure you update immediately!
AccountsService could be made to crash or stop responding.

Summary

AccountsService could be made to crash or stop responding.

Software Description:

- accountsservice: query and manipulate user account information

Details:

Gunnar Hjalmarsson discovered that AccountsService incorrectly dropped

privileges. A local user could possibly use this issue to cause

AccountsService to crash or stop responding, resulting in a denial of

service. (CVE-2022-1804)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical local exploit ubuntu service interruption accountsservice

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
  accountsservice                 22.07.5-2ubuntu1.3
  libaccountsservice0             22.07.5-2ubuntu1.3

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all
the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2022-1804

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May 24, 2022

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical local exploit ubuntu service interruption accountsservice

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/22.07.5-2ubuntu1.3

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