USN-5439-1: AccountsService vulnerability
24 May 2022
AccountsService could be made to crash or stop responding.
Releases
Packages
- accountsservice - query and manipulate user account information
Details
Gunnar Hjalmarsson discovered that AccountsService incorrectly dropped
privileges. A local user could possibly use this issue to cause
AccountsService to crash or stop responding, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2022-1804)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 22.04
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all
the necessary changes.