CVE-2011-1842 Command injection in n/a
Local attackers can execute arbitrary commands and gain privileges via shell metacharacters in D-Bus arguments in the language-selector component.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2011-1842?
CVE-2011-1842 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in n/a, published on 3 May 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
dbus_backend/lsd.py in the D-Bus backend in language-selector before 0.6.7 does not validate the arguments to the (1) SetSystemDefaultLangEnv and (2) SetSystemDefaultLanguageEnv functions, which allows local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in a string argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0729.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-1842?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ubuntu Language-Selector.
How do I fix CVE-2011-1842?
No fix has been published for CVE-2011-1842 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2011-1842 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-1842 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vgg4-r596-q6v8.