{"id":55283,"date":"2024-03-11T18:59:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T15:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/files\/177529\/USN-6687-1.txt"},"modified":"2024-03-12T11:06:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T07:36:32","slug":"ubuntu-security-notice-usn-6687-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/ubuntu-security-notice-usn-6687-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6687-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">==========================================================================<br \/>\nUbuntu Security Notice USN-6687-1<br \/>\nMarch 11, 2024<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">accountsservice vulnerability<br \/>\n==========================================================================<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8211; Ubuntu 22.04 LTS<br \/>\n&#8211; Ubuntu 20.04 LTS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Summary:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">AccountsService could be made to expose sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Software Description:<br \/>\n&#8211; accountsservice: query and manipulate user account information<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Details:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was discovered that AccountsService called a helper incorrectly when<br \/>\nperformaing password change operations. A local attacker could possibly use<br \/>\nthis issue to obtain encrypted passwords.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Update instructions:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following<br \/>\npackage versions:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:<br \/>\naccountsservice 22.07.5-2ubuntu1.5<br \/>\nlibaccountsservice0 22.07.5-2ubuntu1.5<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:<br \/>\naccountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.7<br \/>\nlibaccountsservice0 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.7<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all<br \/>\nthe necessary changes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">References:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/ubuntu.com\/security\/notices\/USN-6687-1<br \/>\nCVE-2012-6655<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Package Information:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/accountsservice\/22.07.5-2ubuntu1.5<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/accountsservice\/0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6687-1 March 11, 2024 accountsservice vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: &#8211; Ubuntu 22.04 LTS &#8211; Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Summary: AccountsService could be made to expose sensitive information. Software Description: &#8211; accountsservice: query and manipulate user account information Details: It was discovered that AccountsService &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55309,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55283\/revisions\/55309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}