Kevin Backhouse discovered that AccountsService incorrectly dropped privileges. A local user could possibly use this issue to cause AccountsService to crash or hang, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-16126) Kevin Backhouse discovered that AccountsService incorrectly handled reading .pam_environment files. A local user could possibly use this issue to cause AccountsService to crash or hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.10. (CVE-2020-16127) Matthias Gerstner discovered that AccountsService incorrectly handled certain path checks. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-14036)
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