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accountsservice — security advisory
The user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb function in /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon in AccountsService before 0.6.22 does not properly check the UID when copying an icon file to the system cache directory, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a race condition.
- Products
- accountsservice
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.6.21-6
- CVEs
- CVE-2012-2737
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:12 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb function in /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon in AccountsService before 0.6.22 does not properly check the UID when copying an icon file to the system cache directory, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a race condition.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2737
accountsservice
Fixed versions: 0.6.21-6
accountsservice
Fixed versions: 0.6.21-6
accountsservice
Fixed versions: 0.6.21-6
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:37.612385987Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 418006,
"published_at": "2012-07-22T17:55:02.913+00:00"
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