CVE-2013-1060: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A certain Ubuntu build procedure for perf, as distributed in the Linux kernel packages in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS, 12.10, 13.04, and 13.10, sets the HOME environment variable to the ~buildd directory and consequently reads the system configuration file from the ~buildd directory, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging control over the buildd account.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 12.04 only; version 12.10 only; version 13.04 only; version 13.10 only

Published 2013-09-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.