Bug 1192821 – VUL-1: CVE-2021-3939: accountsservice: potential denial of service via dbus

Bug 1192821 - (CVE-2021-3939) VUL-1: CVE-2021-3939: accountsservice: potential denial of service via dbus

(CVE-2021-3939)
Summary:	VUL-1: CVE-2021-3939: accountsservice: potential denial of service via dbus

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Classification:	Novell Products
Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P4 - Low Severity: Minor
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URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/315102/
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Reported:	2021-11-18 10:18 UTC by Robert Frohl
Modified:	2022-02-03 12:25 UTC (History)
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Description Robert Frohl 2021-11-18 10:18:57 UTC

CVE-2021-3939

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.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2021-3939
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3939
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1950149
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5149-1

Comment 3 Robert Frohl 2022-02-03 12:25:50 UTC

does not affect SUSE or openSUSE, closing