CVE-2020-16127

Name	CVE-2020-16127
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
accountsservice (PTS)	buster	0.6.45-2	fixed
	bullseye	0.6.55-3	fixed
	bookworm	22.08.8-6	fixed
	trixie	23.13.9-6	fixed
	sid	23.13.9-6.1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
accountsservice	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

- accountsservice <not-affected> (Ubuntu-specific issue in 0010-set-language.patch)