Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Zbigniew Tenerowicz and Sebastian Krzyszkowiak discovered that pam-xdg-support incorrectly handled the PATH environment variable. A local attacker could use this issue in combination with sudo to possibly escalate privileges.
Affected
pam-xdg-support on Ubuntu 12.10
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2013-1052 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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