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CVE-2011-2922

CVE-2011-2922

EPSS 0.7%
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.
Affected products
ktsuss · ktsuss

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References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2922https://lwn.net/Articles/477678/https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/109154/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-201201-15.htmlhttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/cve/CVE-2011-2922https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2922https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-LINUX-KTSUSS-174466https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49151