Upstream information

CVE-2020-16127 at MITRE

Description

An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, would perform unbounded read operations on user-controlled ~/.pam_environment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having low severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 2.1
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1178424 [RESOLVED / INVALID]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP2 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP3 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS accountsservice Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 accountsservice Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 accountsservice Not affected
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 accountsservice Analysis
SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 accountsservice Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 accountsservice Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 accountsservice Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 accountsservice Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 accountsservice Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS accountsservice Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS accountsservice Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS accountsservice Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS accountsservice Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 accountsservice Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP1 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2-CLIENT accountsservice Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service Image Server 12 SP2 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 accountsservice Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 accountsservice Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 accountsservice Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 accountsservice Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL accountsservice Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS accountsservice Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS accountsservice Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 accountsservice Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 accountsservice Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 accountsservice Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3 accountsservice Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 accountsservice Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 accountsservice Unsupported
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Manager Server 4.0 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Manager Server 4.1 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE Manager Server 4.2 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 accountsservice Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 accountsservice Not affected
openSUSE Leap 15.3 accountsservice Not affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Nov 3 18:18:17 2020
CVE page last modified: Thu Nov 14 17:26:02 2024