CVE-2013-1066: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

language-selector 0.110.x before 0.110.1, 0.90.x before 0.90.1, and 0.79.x before 0.79.4 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 12.10 only; version 13.04 only
• Ubuntu Developers Language-Selector: version 0.79 only; version 0.79.1 only; version 0.79.2 only; version 0.79.3 only; version 0.90 only; version 0.110 only

Published 2013-10-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.