CVE-2011-1842: Ubuntu Language-Selector

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Ubuntu Language-Selector: up to and including 0.6.6; version 0.0+baz20050531 only; version 0.0+baz20050609 only; version 0.0+baz20050614 only; version 0.0+baz20050808 only; version 0.0+baz20050811 only; …

Published 2011-05-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.