CVE-2011-2922 (GCVE-0-2011-2922)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-11-19 18:08
Modified
2024-08-06 23:15
Severity ?
CWE
  • UNKNOWN_TYPE
Summary
ktsuss versions 1.4 and prior spawns the GTK interface to run as root. This can allow a local attacker to escalate privileges to root and use the "GTK_MODULES" environment variable to possibly execute arbitrary code.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2922Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lwn.net/Articles/477678/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/109154/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-201201-15.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/cve/CVE-2011-2922Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2922Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-LINUX-KTSUSS-174466Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49151Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2922Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lwn.net/Articles/477678/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/109154/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-201201-15.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/cve/CVE-2011-2922Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2922Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-LINUX-KTSUSS-174466Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49151Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ktsuss ktsuss Version: 1.4 and prior
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