CVE-2011-1842

HighCVSS 7.2/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.2/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
May 3, 2011
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2011-1842: High severity, CVSS 7.2 | Vulnix